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Celebrating Disability Inclusion:

The 30th Anniversary of the Passage of the

Americans with Disabilities Act

Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD
Professor of the Practice
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Leonard Rubenstein is Professor in the Department of
Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, and Director of the Program in Human Rights, Health and
Conflict. He is also a core faculty member the Berman Institute
of Bioethics and the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns
Hopkins University. Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins in 2009,
he was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States
Institute of Peace, and before that Executive Director of
Physicians for Human Rights and Executive Director of the Judge
David Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. While at the
Bazelon Center he was deeply involved in legislation and
litigation for disability rights, including advocacy for and
implementation of the Americans with Disability Act.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the
Congressional Minority Caucuses’ Healthcare Hero Award and
the Sidel-Levy Award for Peace of the American Public Health
Association. He has appeared before Congress, the World Health
Assembly and the UN Security Council. He has a J.D. from
Harvard Law School and LL.M. from Georgetown Law School.

Roger Severino, JD
Director, Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
Roger Severino is the Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - a post he has
held since his appointment in March 2017. Prior to joining HHS,
Mr. Severino served as Director of the DeVos Center for Religion
and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation. Before joining
Heritage in 2015, Mr. Severino was a trial attorney for seven
years in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division,
where he enforced the Fair Housing Act, the Religious Land Use
and Institutionalized Persons Act, and Title II and Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964. Prior to DOJ, he was chief operations
officer and legal counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious
Liberty.
Mr. Severino holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School; received a
master’s degree in public policy, with highest distinction, from
Carnegie Mellon University; and has a bachelor’s degree in
business from the University of Southern California.

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