On Friday, October 23, 2020, McKissock Learning is hosting a FREE non-credit webinar titled “Fair Housing, Is It?” Join a virtual panel of real estate experts as they analyze the findings of the Newsday investigation, Long Island Divided, and discuss how real estate agents and brokers can evaluate their current practices to align with the Fair Housing Act.
Recent global events have moved people to take action, have meaningful dialogue, and be instruments of change. Our panel seeks to help real estate professionals examine their own biases when it comes to fair housing, and provide tools that can be implemented today to help work toward a better tomorrow.
Join us for this FREE webinar on Friday, October 23 from 2:00pm–3:30pm EDT. Sign up here.
Meet the Panel
Leigh Brown
Anne M. Petit
Supt. Petit is also active nationally, having served as President of the Association of Appraiser Regulatory Officials (AARO) from 2015-2016 and at the international level, where she served as the 2019 President of the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO). She is the only regulator to have been elected as president of both organizations.
Darlene Sweeney-Newbern
Ms. Sweeney-Newbern has been an Instructor on fair housing laws and author of two fair housing training manuals for the National Fair Housing Training Academy located in Washington, D.C. She is a popular motivational speaker who has presented at national and international conferences throughout the United States. During the Obama administration, she met at the White House and in Ohio with senior staff to discuss national housing policy reform.
Ms. Sweeney-Newbern has investigated or consulted in many notable cases, including a large settlement in a redlining case against Farmers Insurance in Toledo and an $850,000 settlement in a race and familial status discrimination case involving a Massillon, Ohio landlord who limited the number of African American tenants in his properties.
Ms. Sweeney-Newbern sits on numerous boards and committees including the Northern Ohio Development Agency (NODA), the Toledo Chapter of the NAACP, Toledo Community Coalition, the Toledo Chief of Police Advisory Board, Dialogue to Change, and State of the State Conference Committee. Ms. Sweeney-Newbern is the recipient of various awards including The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth Humanitarian Award, Shanna L. Smith-Spirit of Fair Housing Award, Ohio Civil Rights Commission’s “Rosa Parks Medal,” the NAACP Outstanding Community Leadership Award, and, the “Keeping the Dream Alive Award” for brokering the Farmers Insurance case settlement.