Christopher J. Kuczynski
Assistant Legal Counsel
ADA Policy Division
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Chris Kuczynski is Assistant Legal Counsel and Director of the Americans with Disabilities Act Policy Division at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He supervises the development of policy guidance interpreting Title I of the ADA and advises EEOC’s field offices, Office of General Counsel, and Chair and Commissioners on ADA investigations and litigation.

Since assuming the position of Assistant Legal Counsel in February 1997, Mr. Kuczynski has made hundreds of presentations on the ADA to a variety of audiences – from human resources professionals and EEO counselors in the public and private sectors, to plaintiff and defense counsel. From October 2003 until April 2004, Mr. Kuczynski was Associate Director for the White House Domestic Policy Council, coordinating activities across the federal government related to the New Freedom Initiative, the President’s comprehensive strategy for the full integration of people with disabilities into all aspects of American life. Mr. Kuczynski also served for nine months as Special Assistant to former EEOC Chair Cari Dominguez, advising her on issues related to all of the EEO laws.

Before working at the EEOC, he worked as a trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice from July 1993 through February 1997, and worked for three years as a litigation associate with a major Philadelphia law firm. He has a B.A. in English from Villanova University, a J.D. from Temple Law School, and an LL.M. from the Yale Law School, where his course of study focused on constitutional law and civil rights issues.