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David K. Fram, Esq., Keynote Speaker, at the 2008 Awards Program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Adams, Master of Ceremonies, at the 2008 Awards Program.

 

 

 

 


Dr. Paul K. Longmore speaking at the History of Disability workshop for the 2007 Awards Program.

 

 

Awards 2007-2009: Speaker Bios

Keynote Speaker 2008 & 2009: David K. Fram, Esq.
 Director of ADA & EEO Services for the National
Employment Law Institute (NELI)

David K. Fram, Esq., is Director, ADA & EEO Services for the National Employment Law Institute.  In this position, Mr. Fram conducts seminars, briefings, workshops, and in-house training on the ADA and other EEO laws.  He also provides guidance, as well as expert witness services, during administrative proceedings and litigation.

From 1991-1996, Mr. Fram was Policy Attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C.  This office formulates regulations and policy on federal EEO laws.  Before this, Mr. Fram was with the firm of Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C., where he represented employers in a broad range of employment issues.  Mr. Fram has spoken extensively around the country concerning ADA and EEO issues, and has trained thousands of HR professionals, attorneys, and others representing manufacturers, federal, state and local governments, colleges and universities, hospitals and health service providers, benefit providers, non-profits, and law firms and bar associations, among others.  He also has trained hundreds of EEOC investigators and EEOC attorneys who analyze and resolve ADA claims.  In addition, Mr. Fram has consulted with EEOC investigators and EEOC attorneys during the investigation and resolution of all forms of discrimination complaints. 

Mr. Fram has written on a variety of employment issues.  Recent ADA books and articles include:

Resolving ADA Workplace Questions: How Courts and Agencies are Dealing with Employment Issues (NELI; 23rd Edition 9/2007) .

The Human Resource Guide to Answering ADA Workplace Questions:  Checklists and Practical Hints for Human Resources Personnel (NELI; 5th Edition 8/2005)

Mr. Fram received his B.A. degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Maryland.  He received his J.D. degree, cum laude from The Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of The Cornell Law Review.

Master of Ceremonies 2007, 2008 and 2009: Mike Adams
Interim Associate Dean, Humanities & the Arts

Mike Adams has always been in radio, television, and film. Beginning in the 1960s as a "top-40" disc jockey and continuing to the present as a documentary film maker and professor of radio and television, Adams has been involved in hundreds of broadcasting projects as a writer, producer, director and talent. As an educator and researcher, he has written numerous articles for journals and periodicals, two books on radio and television production, and a historical biography. He wrote, produced and directed an Emmy-nominated video series for PBS called Radio Collector, and the PBS documentary, Broadcasting's Forgotten Father: the Charles Herrold Story. His latest book is Charles Herrold, Inventor of Radio Broadcasting. Since 2000 he has served as the Chair of the Department of Television, Radio, Film and Theatre, and he continues as the faculty advisor to the department FM station, KSJS 90.5. In 2006 and 2007, Mike taught History of Broadcasting and Photography at the Shanghai Theatre Academy School of Television Arts as part of an exchange between his department and the Shanghai school.  After 8 years as chair of TV-Radio-Film and Theatre at SJSU, Adams is currently serving a one year term as interim associate dean in the College of Humanities and the Arts.

Keynote Speaker 2007: Dr. Paul K. Longmore
Professor of History and Director of Institute on
Disability at San Francisco State University (SFSU)

Paul K. Longmore, Professor of History and Director of the Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University, specializes in early American history and the history of people with disabilities. He earned his Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate School and his B.A. and M.A. at Occidental College. Longmore's book "The Invention of George Washington" (University of California Press, 1988; pb. University Press of Virginia, 1998) has been described by the distinguished historian Edmund S. Morgan as "probably the best account" of Washington’s early career. Meanwhile, Stanley Kutler, former editor of the journal Reviews in American History, praised the work as "pioneering." 

Longmore’s call in the mid-1980s was for historians to examine the history of disability. In 2004, in that same journal, a review of "Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability" (Temple University Press, 2003), declared, "Probably more than anyone, Longmore has been responsible for bringing disability studies to the field of history." He has taught at Stanford University, the University of Southern California, and the California Polytechnic University at Pomona. San Francisco State University's Institute on Disability is a multidisciplinary research, curriculum-development, and community-service program. From 1983 to 1986, Longmore served as the administrator of the Program in Disability and Society at the University of Southern California, one of the first disability studies projects in the United States.

In March 2005, he received the Henry B. Betts Award, given annually by the American Association of Persons with Disabilities and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago to "honor an individual whose work and scope of influence have significantly improved the quality of life for people with disabilities in the past, and will be a force for change in the future." The award carries with it an unencumbered grant of $50,000. Additionally, in 2006, he was awarded the California State University Wang Family Excellence Award.

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