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Thomas P. Golden, MS, CRC is the Associate Director of the Employment and Disability Institute in the ILR School at Cornell University and has been on faculty since 1991. He has contributed to the NIDRR-sponsored Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities and the StatsRRTC at Cornell. He also directs the Work Incentives Support Center and several other state initiatives focusing on community participation and inclusion of people with disabilities. He completed a comparative analysis of return to work policy and practice in the United Kingdom and United States which currently culminated in an International Symposium hosted by the White House in 2004. He is currently working with the International Labor Organization (ILO) to design an educational curriculum that will be used in 13 third-world countries to support the development of anti-discrimination legislation and policy impacting individuals with disabilities. Thomas has served on the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Advisory Panel since its inception and was also a member of an Advisory Group established by the Social Security Administration to address adequacy of incentive issues under the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program. He is a Board Member of the U.S. International Disability Council, National Council on Rehabilitation Education and a member of the National Academy on Social Insurance.
Raymond A. Cebula, III, Esq. is a faculty member of the Employment and Disability Institute in the ILR School at Cornell University. As a faculty member, he provides technical assistance and training to an array of stakeholders on social insurance issues as well as protection and advocacy supports. As an experienced social security disability attorney Mr. Cebula practiced with the Disability Benefits Project as a Senior Staff Attorney with the Disability Law Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He has also served as a Managing Attorney of the Disability and Medicare projects at Southeastern Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation. He is a graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH and received a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship upon graduation. He is also a graduate of Merrimack College and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. His practice has concentrated in the area of social security practice and has brought several pieces of significant litigation on behalf of low income, disabled social security beneficiaries. While working with the Disability Law Center, Mr. Cebula taught at Harvard Law School's Legal Aid Bureau for a period of three academic years. He is the co-author of the MCLE publication An Advocate's Guide to Surviving the SSI System, as well as several SSI practice manuals published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, and is a regular presenter of social security related programs at local and national conferences of social security practitioners.
