NARPA 2001: Brief biographies of presenters -
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Peter Nimkoff:Peter Nimkoff is Chief Counsel for the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc., in Tallahassee, Florida.Since 1996, he has been senior litigator and mediator for class actions under the ADA.He has lectured both in the United States and abroad.He has been active in the areas of environmental and safety law, as well as civil rights and disability law.He was a visiting lecturer in comparative judicial reform at the East-West Management Institute, Soros Foundation, Tirana, Albania, in 2000.He was Special Counsel, State of Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia in 1996, and Attorney General, State of Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia in 1995 and 1996.He was General Counsel, Bluewater Administration, Colorado River Indian Tribes in Parker, Arizona in 1995, and Attorney General, Colorado River Indian Tribes, Reservation, Parker, Arizona in 1993 through 1995.He was Associate Professor of Public Law at the City University of New York Law School from 1989 through 1993, and Visiting Professor of Healthcare Ethics, Health Law and Policy Joint Medical Program at the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and 1992.He has taught at many well known institutions in the United States and has also taught abroad.He attended Florida State University as an undergraduate, and went on to Yale Law School.He has a background in anthropology.His hobbies are ethnographic arts, travel, and environmental advocacy.He was a volunteer teacher at a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, with Unipal, U.K.His activities are too wide ranging to easily summarize, however, a thread of environmental harmony and social justice runs throughout.He was born in Glendale, California, and is married with four children.