As the premiere fair housing event in Morris County, this symposium will shed new light on current and emerging fair housing issues as it highlights common interests and shared responses in making fair housing a reality.

This seminar is co-sponsored by The Housing Committee of the Morris County Human Relations Commission and the Morris County Division of Community Development.

Seminar Features:
• Overview of Federal, State and Local fair housing laws
• Impact of housing discrimination on our community
• Best business practices for housing professionals
• Voluntary compliance
• Questions answered by fair housing experts
• Tenant/Landlord rights and responsibilities
• How to file a housing discrimination complaint

Key Speakers:

Ester H. Nevarez, Community Relations Coordinator
NJ Office on Civil Rights, Bureau of Prevention & Community Relations

Esther H. Nevarez joined the Division on Civil Rights in March of 1992. Ms. Nevarez develops and delivers trainings for business and industry, municipalities and advocacy groups on civil rights issues as covered under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination and the Family Leave Act, and is responsible for all communications to the media. Nevarez earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at El Paso.

Brenda Edmonson, Chief
NJ Program Center, Office of Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity

Brenda Edmonson has held this position for the last seven years. She has civil rights related programmatic oersight over the State's 900+ receipients of Federal financial assistance. Prior to this position, Ms. Edmonson was an Equal Opportunity Spcialist with HUD where she was responsible for structuring HUD's activities in response to high profile litigation cases, training and technical assistance to HUD's 10 Regions, conducting compliance reviews and other civil rights-related monitoring functions.