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Hezzy Smith

@hmssmith

Disability rights attorney striving to make society more inclusive.

Joined March 2009
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ICIYouth@ICIYouth25 Sep 2024
Discover our video resources on guardianship alternatives, supported decision-making, and transfer-of-rights! We have webinars for parents & educators, plus content for self-advocates: youth-voice.org/videos/ #A2G #AlternativesToGuardianship #ICIYouth
Videos - Center on Youth Voice, Youth Choice

Videos - Center on Youth Voice, Youth Choice

Youth Ambassador Showcases Youth Ambassadors are young people with disabilities who can teach their peers about supports they need to make decisions. They completed a 13-week training… Comic Audio...

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ICIYouth@ICIYouth24 Sep 2024
Listen to "Thinking for Me," a comic by Giancarlo Vicari, a Youth Ambassador, now turned into a 5-minute audio story about what it means to turn 18 and talk with your parents about alternatives to guardianship: wi.st/476p5jU #A2G #AlternativesToGuardianship #ICIYouth
Thinking For Me

Thinking For Me

5 min 19 sec video

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Join the #UNGA78 side event on ‘Armed Conflict and Disability - From Inclusive Protection to Peacebuilding’ with @SR_Disability.   📅26 October 2023 🕒1:15 PM (EDT) 📍Permanent Mission of Poland @PLinUN & online. Register at: ow.ly/Je2K50Q0j6p  ➡️ow.ly/A5Jt50Q0j6o
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Join the #HPOD for ‘Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities; How Lessons from the Past Should Inform Today's Policies’ October 26, 2023, 5:15 PM (EDT) HLS, WCC1010 Streaming: tinyurl.com/HPODReckoning
Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities

Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities

At HPOD panel, advocates, scholars, and institution survivors discuss efforts to uncover an untold story

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Join us Oct 25 at 5:15pm for HPOD's in-person #event "Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for #PeoplewithDisabilities​"​, feat @lalexgreen, @PoisonedPenner, @fortedesi, Jan Nisbet, Reggie Clark & Anne Fracht. Register online: hpod.law.harvard.edu/events/…
Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities

Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities

At HPOD panel, advocates, scholars, and institution survivors discuss efforts to uncover an untold story

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Local to Greater Boston? Join us! - HPOD's Annual Community Gathering to Connect and Preview Opportunities to Advance Disability Rights hpod.law.harvard.edu/events/…
Open House

Open House

HPOD's annual community gathering to connect and preview opportunities to advance disability rights

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TASH@TASHtweet13 Jul 2023
Do you remember that Eve Hill was the keynote speaker at our first Outstanding Leadership in Disability Law Symposium & Award Celebration in 2017, honoring Thomas Gilhool? And now, seven years later, she is our honoree! Learn more & register: tash.org/2023-oldl/ #2023TASHOLDL
A photograph of Eve Hill at a podium and mic. She is wearing a sea green blazer and has long red hair with bangs.

ALT A photograph of Eve Hill at a podium and mic. She is wearing a sea green blazer and has long red hair with bangs.

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Powerful reflections from Kamisha Heriveaux, #selfadvocate extraordinaire, on the role of #youth with #intellectualdisabilities in exploring and promoting #alternatives to #guardianship. @ICInclusion hpod.law.harvard.edu/news/en…
Youth with Disabilities in Action

Youth with Disabilities in Action

Spreading the word about alternatives to guardianship

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HPOD is proud to be co-sponsoring @UNITAR's 2023 roundtable series "Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing" to promote the #HumanRights of #olderpersons, which starts on June 22 hpod.law.harvard.edu/events/…
Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing

Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing

UNITAR's 2023 roundtable series to promote the rights of older persons

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A big thank you to our sponsors, co-sponsors, and attendees for making today's #COSP16 side event on #DisabilityInclusion in the global #PeaceandSecurity agenda a success! @USIP @USUN @PLinUN @LuxembourgUN @FinlandUN @hrw @IDA_CRPD_Forum @USICD @SR_Disability @NLatUN @NZUN
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Join us on June 15 at 11:30am EDT for our #COSP16 virtual side event, "Movement and Cohesion in the #Disability, #Peace, and #Security Agenda" @PLinUN @luxembourgUN @FinlandUN @hrw @IDA_CRPD_Forum hpod.law.harvard.edu/events/…
Movement and Cohesion in the Disability, Peace, and Security Agenda

Movement and Cohesion in the Disability, Peace, and Security Agenda

Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Persons with Disabilities side event

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TASH@TASHtweet26 Apr 2023
TASH's Outstanding Leadership in Disability Law Symposium and Award Celebration will be July 19, 2023 at the American University Washington College of Law. The honoree of this year's legal symposium is Eve Hill. Learn more and register at tash.org/2023-oldl/ #2023TASHOLDL
The logo for the Outstanding Leadership in Disability Law Symposium and Award Celebration. The event title in purple with an illustration of a stylized Doric column with a star and laurels in gold to the left and the TASH Möbius strip below.

ALT The logo for the Outstanding Leadership in Disability Law Symposium and Award Celebration. The event title in purple with an illustration of a stylized Doric column with a star and laurels in gold to the left and the TASH Möbius strip below.

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