Redistricting 2011: Strategies for Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Place: Room 8, First Floor
Workshop Track: Civil & Human Rights

This workshop will present an overview of recent developments expected to impact the 2011 redistricting process, in particular the ability of minority communities to have fair representation. The workshop will also examine what strategies are available to minority communities to protect against vote dilution, in light of recent United States Supreme Court voting rights decisions. Also, the workshop will look back at past redistrictings, including the 2001 redistricting in California, and examine how advocates should consider changing the strategies they used in 2001.

Click here for a recording of this workshop: Redistricting 2011: Strategies for Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities.

The Asian Pacific American Legal Center is a California State Bar certified provider of MCLE credits and this workshop has been approved for 1 hour of credit. To receive California MCLE credit, attorneys must pay an additional $10 per workshop that offers MCLE credit. Payment collected separately onsite.

Speakers:

	Daniel Ichinose Project Director, Demographic Research Asian Pacific American Legal Center		Eugene Lee Project Director, Voting Rights Asian Pacific American Legal Center (Workshop Moderator)
	Catherine McCully Chief of Census Redistricting Data Office United States Census Bureau		Nancy Ramirez Western Regional Counsel Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
	Leland Saito Associate Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity University of Southern California