Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series

Presented by Kathleen Graham

Thursday, August 1, at 12:00 P.M.

at Briggs and Morgan, PA, 2400 IDS Center, in Minneapolis

(lunch will be served)

Ms. Graham has been a member of the Minnesota bar since 1972, and is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where she was a founding member of the Women of Stanford Law, and an editor of the Law Review.  She practiced employment, discrimination and class action law in Minnesota for more than twenty years, as a founding member of Dayton Herman and Graham from 1974 until 1988; and from 1988 to 1995 as a shareholder at Leonard Street and Deinard, after the merger of the two firms.  She left private practice in 1995 and since then has been working as a legal consultant on issues of women’s equitable participation in economic and political life in developing countries.  She researched and co-authored MAHR’s report on domestic violence as a human rights violation in Nepal, and has returned there in 1998 and 2000 with the MAHR team to conduct training sessions for NGOs and the police academy.  She also conducted research for the MAHR study of children's right to health care in Uganda and contributed to that report.  As a freelance journalist she covered the Beijing United Nations’ Conference on Women for the Star Tribune, and is the recipient of the 1992 Hennepin County Bar Association’s Professionalism Award and the 1998 MAHR Women's Program Volunteer of the Year Award.  In December 1999, the Star Tribune named her one of the 100 most influential Minnesotans of the 20th Century, for her work on women’s rights.  She is presently working under a UNIFEM grant, to improve the legal and regulatory environment for women business owners in Tajikistan, where she travels regularly.  Her son Adam's women friends have volunteered that she has raised a feminist son, a report that gives her no end of delight!

This is the tenth in a series of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness of women’s human rights issues.  Please join us the first Thursday of each month for a new presentation.  For more information, please contact Amelia at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.

Please R.S.V.P. to Amelia Buttress at Minnesota Advocates for

 Human Rights by noon on Tuesday, July 30th.

Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 107   Email: abuttress@mnadvocates.org