Tickets for Human Rights Commission dinner meeting go on sale this week

Tickets for the Columbus Human Rights Commission’s annual dinner meeting go on sale this week. The commission is inviting you to hear a moderated discussion on immigration featuring Dr. Neeraj Kaushal and Ms. Angela Adams on Thursday, June 20th. That event is will be held at The Commons, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Dr. Kaushal is a professor of social policy and the chair of the doctoral program at Columbia School of Social Work. His academic fields of expertise include comparative immigration policy, social welfare policy, labor economics, health economics, and public finance.

Adams is the owner and managing attorney at Adams Immigration Law, LLC in Carmel, where she practices family and employment-based immigration law. She holds a B.S. in public affairs-management from Indiana University and a J.D. from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

Adams has served on several boards and in leadership capacities, including at the Immigrant Welcome Center, Su Casa Columbus, Mexican Scholarship Fund, La Plaza, Hispanic Education Center, and the Indiana chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers.

In addition to the discussion, the recipient of the 2019 William R. Laws Human Rights Award and the winners of the 2019 Benjamin M. King Essay and the J. Irwin Miller Art Contests will be honored at the dinner. The theme for this year’s art and essay contests is “You Belong in Columbus.”

Admission to the dinner is by advance ticket purchase. Tickets for the dinner are set to go on sale Wednesday, May 22. They are $30 each. Tickets can be purchased at the Human Rights Commission office in City Hall, or by going online at columbus.in.gov/human-rights/.

The deadline for purchasing tickets is Monday, June 17th at 5 p.m.