The American Diabetes Association (ADA) seeks a lawyer for a two-year fellowship Discrimination against people with diabetes is often based on ignorance or on …
The American Diabetes Association
Seeks Applicants for the
ADA - Novo Nordisk Legal Advocacy Fellowship
The American Diabetes Association ADA seeks a lawyer for a two-year
fellowship fighting discrimination against people with diabetes in the
workplace, at school and child care centers, in correctional institutions
and police conduct, and in places of public accommodation
Discrimination against people with diabetes is often based on ignorance or
on unfounded fears about the disease ADAs legal advocacy program uses a
four-step approach: educate, negotiate, litigate, and legislate to combat
discrimination We work with a network of over 400 lawyers, the top
diabetes health care professionals from around the country, other
disability rights, civil rights, and health care professional
organizations, and government agencies Together we develop educational
materials, negotiate standards for fair treatment of people with diabetes,
bring federal and state lawsuits and administrative actions, and change
unfair state and federal laws This combination of tactics has given the
Association the flexibility it needs to
develop successful campaigns to
combat discrimination and will enable the ADA - Novo Nordisk Legal Advocacy
Fellow to gain broad experience on methods of impacting social change
through legal work - as well as the opportunity to work with lawyers who
practice in a wide variety of legal settings
The Fellow will provide information and resources to workers, families of
school children, inmates and their families, and others - and will work
with them to develop strategies to combat discrimination The Fellow will
also work on ongoing major projects including ADAs Safe at School Campaign
and the National Diabetes Prison Coalition The goal of the Safe at School
Campaign is for all students with diabetes to be medically safe at school
and to have the same educational opportunities as their peers The
National Diabetes Prison Coalition combines the efforts of ADA, Southern
Poverty Law Center, ACLU, and others to improve the deplorable lack of
access to diabetes care in jails and prisons
Further information about legal advocacy at ADA can be found at
wwwdiabetesorg/discrimination Applicants are encouraged to read
Diabetes Legal Advocacy Comes of Age in the Summer 2006 issue of
Diabetes
Spectrum, which can be found at:
wwwdiabetesorg/advocacy/discrimination/greenespectrum1106pdf This
article by Michael Greene, the founder of ADAs legal advocacy efforts,
describes ADAs approach to ending discrimination and highlights some of
the Associations recent accomplishments in this area
The American Diabetes Association is the nations leading voluntary health
organization supporting diabetes research, information and advocacy
Founded in 1940, ADA provides services to hundreds of communities across
the country Its mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve
the lives of all people affected by diabetes In addition to its legal
advocacy efforts, ADA advocates for the increase of federal diabetes
research and programs and for improving access to, and quality of,
healthcare for people with diabetes
The ADA - Novo Nordisk Legal Advocacy Fellowship is funded by a generous
contribution from Novo-Nordisk Inc
Requirements: The ideal candidate will possess a passion for combating
discrimination, a desire to help improve the lives of people affected by
diabetes, and the ability to understand complex legal and emotional issues
and provide creative solutions
Candidates should have some experience
with disability rights, discrimination law, or other civil rights law
To apply: Please send a cover letter, resume, list of references, law
school transcript, and writing sample The writing sample should be legal
in nature brief, memorandum, or research paper and should not be
something that has been done in collaboration with another author or
something that has been heavily edited by someone else These materials
should be sent by mail or e-mail to:
Shereen Arent
Managing Director of Legal Advocacy
American Diabetes Association
1701 North Beauregard Street
Alexandria, VA 22311
sarent@diabetesorg
The fellowship is located at the Associations national office in
Alexandria, Virginia
Source:napas.org
