I am the Legal Director of the Strong Children Wellness Medical Legal Partnership, and a New York licensed attorney and Special Professor of Law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, where I presently teach Bioethics and the Law, Public Health Law, Policy and Ethics, and The ADA: Statutory Interpretation (a course I developed for the law school) in the online LLM/MA program. I also lecture worldwide on disability law and anti-discrimination advocacy, and practice in these areas, immigration law, public benefits, and general and special education law. I am an appointed member of the Adult Ethics Committee in the Division of Medical Ethics at Northwell Health, one of the nation's largest healthcare systems. Additionally, I hold an appointment as a Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Research at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, SUNY Albany, where I research and lecture on general public consciousness of Constitutional rights, and on issues of subordinated identity and the law. In that capacity, I am one of the chief advisers to the Bar on such matters. I have also worked with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund in New York, working on legal name-change cases and on anti-discrimination litigation, mostly involving health insurance refusals to cover gender confirmation surgery for transgender clients. A nationally recognized authority on intersections between disability and LGBT law, I have consulted pro bono for the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, advising on test case litigation and leading a strategy seminar on this topic for all of Lambda's offices is committed to civic education for all young people. In that spirit, I was appointed in 2016 to the New York State Bar Committee on Law, Youth and Citizenship and its Mock Trial Committee, where I co-wrote that year's high school mock trial tournament problem, Robin Berkman v. County of Dover. Additionally, I lecture on the Constitution and other civic and historical topics to elementary through high school-aged students. I have a passion for history, government, politics and law, and for helping students achieve their goals.

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