Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

are pleased to announce the next lecture in our

Human Rights and National Security Speaker Series

Confronting our Own Bias: Discrimination and Hate Crimes in a Post-September 11th World 

presented by

Manpreet Singh Dhanjal

Thursday, August 21, 2003, 12:00-1:00 P.M.

at

Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

4000 Pillsbury Center

200 South Sixth Street

Minneapolis, MN

This presentation will discuss hate crimes and discrimination in the United States since September 11th, 2001.  In spite of efforts by public officials to contain a wave of hate crimes after September 11th, anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States rose 1700 percent during 2001.

Manpreet Singh Dhanhjal is a Staff Attorney with the Refugee and Immigrant Program at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.  Mr. Dhanjal received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University.  Prior to law school, Mr. Dhanjal worked as a Legislative Correspondent for Representative Ellen O. Tauscher in the House of Representatives.  He is recognized as the first Sikh American to be employed as a full-time staff member on Capitol Hill.  Mr. Dhanjal received his law degree from Villanova University School of Law.  Following graduation, Mr. Dhanjal served as a Judicial Law Clerk in the Superior Court of New Jersey ~ Criminal Part.  Mr. Dhanjal is licensed to practice law in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the State of New Jersey, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.  He is a founding member of the Sikh Bar Association and a volunteer attorney with the Sikh Mediawatch and Resource Taskforce (S.M.A.R.T.).  Mr. Dhanjal has lectured nationally on the issue of Racial Profiling and conducted Bias Awareness Training for Law Enforcement Personnel.  He currently serves on the Board of Advisors to the Minority Alumni Society of the Villanova Law Alumni Association.

This human rights speaker series will be held on the third Thursday of each month throughout 2003.  Lectures are free and open to the public (registration required).  For more information, please contact Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.  You may find directions to Fredrikson & Byron at: www.fredlaw.com/contact.htm

Please R.S.V.P. to Rose Park at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

by noon on Tuesday, August 19^th