Upcoming Speaking Engagements

• August 9, 2006, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center: "What's 'Fair' in ADR Through the Lens of Diversity: An Assessment and Discussion of Best Practices". [ More ]
• The 2007 Minority ADR Conference May 15-18, 2007
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Recent Speaking Engagements

• July 24-26, 2006, at the Excel 2006 National Conference in Las Vegas, NV, Professor Floyd Weatherspoon made three presentations for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Training Institute. They included "Why Can't All Cases Settle?", "Interest-Based and Nontraditional Group Problem Solving" and "Intersectional Basis of Discrimination: Expanding Protections to Multiple Combinations of Discrimination".
• July 13-16, 2006, "Eliminating Barriers for Minority ADR Neutrals" at the Association for Conflict Resolution Family Section Mid-Year Conference in Cape Cod, MA.
• June 2006, Professor Floyd Weatherspoon spoke in England on the Mass Incarceration of Young African American Males in American Prisons at the Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice, and Equity International Conference.
• The 2nd National Training Institute for Minority Professionals in Alternative Dispute Resolution
  June 5-9, 2006 Columbus, Ohio
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• The Status of African-American Males in Higher Education and Employment
  October 26, 2005
  Atlanta, Georgia
  [ Open Text Only Version of the Presentation ]
• The Status of African-American Male Students in Public Schools: A National Tragedy
  Session Title: The Status of African-American High School Students in Public Schools: Increasing Academic Self-Efficiency Achievement
  October 6-8, 2005
  Phoenix, Arizona
  [ More (PowerPoint) ]
• 2nd National Conference of Minority Professionals in Alternative Dispute Resolution: Promoting Opportunities for Minorities in the Field of ADR - May 18-21 2005
  
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• "Disenfranchisement of African-American Males’ Constitutional Rights: A Return of Institutional Slavery" Presented at: Midwest Black Law Students Association, Columbus, Ohio in January 2005.
• "Mediation Best Practices" and "Effective Representation in Mediation" at the EEOC Training Institute, Excel Conference 2004, "Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws" - August 30 through September 2, 2004
• "Human Resources Update: An Overview of Perennial and Changing Issues" for the Ohio Library Council - June 16, 2004 [ More ]
• American Association of Law Schools’ Workshop on Racial Justice In A New Millennium, June 13-15, 2004, Portland, Oregon
  Racial Justice and Equity for African-American males in the American Educational System: A Dream Deferred - Abstract
• Labor Arbitration Development Training, May 17 - 21, 2004, Columbus Ohio, National Training Institute for Minority Professionals in Alternative Dispute Resolution [ More ]
• Panel: Brown v. Board of Education -- 50 years later: A Return to Segregated Schools
  Online News Article with Slide Show
  Capital University MLK Day of Learning, Monday, January 19, 2004
• Mediation of Discrimination Disputes, American Association for Affirmative Action - Tampa, FL, November 2003

Speeches

• Racial Justice and Equity for African-American males in the American Educational System: A Dream Deferred - Abstract
• Dealing With Diversity and Cultural Issues in Mediation - Outline

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