LightHouse Day on June 25, Sponsored by Waymo!
Join us for LightHouse Day on June 25
Our annual LightHouse Day event will be on Thursday, June 25, at our HQ in San Francisco. Coming off the heels of the Day of Action on May 26, this year’s LightHouse Day theme will be advocacy. We are thrilled to welcome guest speakers Jeff Thom and Tim Elder who will lead us in a discussion about their experiences as blind advocates, the current policies and issues related to blind and visually impaired Californians, and how our clients and sighted allies can get involved in advocating for the BVI community.
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2026
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: 1155 Market St., 10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103
RSVP: Please complete the registration form
If you have questions regarding LightHouse Day, please email communications@lighthouse-sf.org.
**This in-person event is made possible by a generous sponsorship from our community partner, Waymo.**
Meet Our Speakers
Jeff Thom
Jeff Thom graduated from Stanford Law School in 1978, after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in political science from Willamette University. Jeff worked as an attorney for the California Legislature for 30 years. He is a past president of the California Council of the Blind and is the Assistant Governmental Affairs Director.
Jeff is a current board member and former first vice president of the American Council of the Blind. He has served in a variety of blindness-related capacities on the national, state, and local level, including as a board member of the American Foundation for the Blind. He is a past president of both the board of directors of Disability Rights California and of the Alliance on Aging and Vision Loss.
Currently, Jeff is president of the California Alliance on Aging and Vision Loss. He is married, is a father of five, and grandfather. Jeff has hosted more than a dozen foreign exchange students. Among the many awards he has received throughout his career is the 2008 California Public Lawyer of the Year.
Tim Elder
Tim Elder is a civil rights litigator focusing on disability discrimination cases. Prior to establishing the TRE Legal Practice, he was associated at Brown, Goldstein & Levy as a Disability Rights Fellow. He has helped secure injunctions against testing entities for their failure to accommodate disabled students, negotiated groundbreaking settlements with publicly traded companies, tried employment discrimination and effective communication claims before juries and argued before federal trial and appellate courts.
Tim graduated magna cum laude from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). During law school, he externed with the Hon. Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He also clerked for the Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center in San Francisco, where he worked on complex employment discrimination cases and represented low-income workers at administrative hearings.
In 2008, Tim was awarded the TenBroek Fellowship for commitment to disability rights, and in 2010, Tim was a recipient of The Daily Record’s VIP by 40 Award, which recognizes younger professionals in Maryland for their professional accomplishments, civic involvement, and impact of achievement. Tim regularly presents on the topic of disability law. He holds leadership positions in the American Bar Association and the National Association of Blind Lawyers. He is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Through his civic involvement, he actively works to promote diversity within the legal profession.
