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Introduction to 2014 David Lepofsky
Osgoode Hall

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Law School Lectures on Advocating for
Disability Rights.

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David Lepofsky, Chair, Accessibility for
Ontarians with Disabilities

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Act Alliance, Osgoode Hall Law School as a
Roy McMurtry Clinical Fellow.

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Hi, my name is David Lepofsky.

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I'm a visiting Roy McMurtry Clinical
Fellow at, at Osgoode Hall Law School at

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York University for early January to early
February 2014.

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During my clinical fellowship, I'm giving
a series of lectures on different aspects

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of the campaign in Ontario for new laws to
protect

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the rights of people with disabilities to
accessibility, to good services,

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facilities and all the other things that
our society has to offer.

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That lecture series is now to be gonna be

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made available on YouTube as a series of
lectures organized

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to help you understand what we fought for,
the strategies

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we've used, what we learned and where
we're going next.

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I hope you enjoy the video series.

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And these were given in different classes
at different times but we

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hope they fit together to tell a good
story and a helpful story.

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We'd like to hear from you what you
thought of the lecture series.

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Email us at aodafeedback@gmail.com that's
aodafeedback@gmail.com.

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You can learn more about our campaign

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for accessibility by going to our website:
AODAalliance.org.

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That's AODAalliance.org.

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That stands for the Accessibility for
Ontarians With Disabilities Act Alliance.

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I'm the coalitions Chair and you can also
follow us on Twitter @AODAalliance.

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Or you can check out our Facebook page,
which is long name.

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It's a long name, Accessibility for
Ontarians With Disabilities Act Alliance.

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Finally, if you'd like to get email
updates from us on our activities,

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please send a request for email

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updates to that same email address:
aodafeedback@gmail.com.

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So here go the lectures.

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You're going to see them not in the order
they were delivered

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but in the order I thought it would make
sense to watch them.

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Looking forward to hearing back from you
on what you thought of the lecture series.