Global Issues Colloquium to Explore Disability Rights

As part of the Global Issue Colloquium Series, Colleen Starkloff, co-founder of the Starkloff Institute, will present “Where in the World Are We Going with Disability Rights?” at 7 p.m. Oct. 7 in Violette Hall 1010.
 
Starkloff helped secure passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and served two terms as the U.S. organizer of the Japan/USA conference on disabilities. Her colloquium on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is co-sponsored by Truman’s Disability Studies Program, whose DisABILITY Conference she is keynoting earlier in the day.