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Michael Adams, director of education and public affairs for the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, will speak on “The Fight for Marriage Equality: Where Do We Go from Here?” 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, in the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights auditorium.
Sponsored by the Ethics Project, the event is free and open to the public.
Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and the transgendered.
Adams is a 1990 graduate of Stanford Law School, received a master’s degree in Latin American studies from Stanford, and earned a bachelor’s degree in government and certificate of Latin American studies from Harvard University. Before coming to Lambda, he spent five years at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Lesbian and Gay Rights and AIDS projects, where he was a staff attorney and then associate director. Prior to that, he was a litigation associate at Clarence & Snell in San Francisco and a lecturer at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley, Calif. Earlier, Adams was a Felix Velarde Muñoz Fellow at the Employment Law Center/Legal Aid Society in San Francisco. He clerked for Chief Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court in San Francisco.
He has also served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, assisting in development, implementation, and assessment of a funding program for AIDS service organizations.
Directed by George Panichas, professor and head of philosophy, the Ethics Project involves the efforts of faculty in all divisions of the College. It fosters both an interest in and a concern for sound moral analysis and reasoning and encourages their application to a full range of contemporary problems. The project sponsors talks, seminars for faculty whose courses include ethics components, and related activities. Funding is provided by an endowment established by the late Louise M. Olmsted and her husband, Robert Olmsted.