Dr. David Acosta

As chief diversity and inclusion officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), David A. Acosta, MD, provides strategic vision and leadership for the AAMC’s diversity and inclusion activities across the academic medicine community, and leads the association’s Diversity Policy and Programs (DPP) unit. DPP provides implicit bias training in partnership with Cook Ross and has published widely on the topic. In May 2017, the AAMC and The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University published the “Proceedings of the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Forum: Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine – How the Prejudices We Don’t Know We Have Affect Medical Education, Medical Careers and Patient Health.”

A board-certified family physician, Dr. Acosta joined the AAMC in 2017 from the University of California (UC), Davis School of Medicine (SOM) where he served as senior associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion and associate vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer for UC Davis Health System. There he pioneered implicit bias training for all faculty and staff searches throughout the health system. He previously served as the inaugural chief diversity officer at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, where he established the Center for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and was the founder of the UW SOM Center for Cultural Proficiency in Medical Education. There he had the opportunity to work closely with Drs. Janice Sabin and Anthony Greenwald who are recognized experts in the field of implicit bias.

Dr. Acosta received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Loyola University and earned his medical degree from the UC, Irvine, School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Community Hospital of Sonoma County in Santa Rosa, Calif., an affiliate of UC San Francisco School of Medicine, and a faculty development fellowship at the UW Department of Family Medicine. He was a clinical professor in the Departments of Family Medicine at both UC Davis SOM and UW SOM.

The Honorable Benes Aldana

Hon. Benes Z. Aldana (Ret.) is the president of The National Judicial College, the nation’s oldest, argest, and most widely attended school for judges. Before joining the NJC, he was on active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard for over 22 years, retiring in the rank of captain and serving as chief trial judge during his last tour of duty, becoming the first Asian Pacific American to serve as a chief trial judge in U.S. military history. Prior to this assignment, he served as the chief legal officer for the 8th Coast Guard District in New Orleans, overseeing legal advice to Coast Guard operations spanning 26 states and the Gulf of Mexico. He was first appointed a military trial judge in 2005 and as an appellate judge in 2015.

He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Seattle University and his law degree from University of Washington. He is currently the president of the National Asian Pacific American Judicial Council. He is a past president of the Asian Bar Association of Washington and past chair of the ABA Solo, Small Firm, and General Practice Division. He also served in the ABA House of Delegates and on the ABA Rule of Law Initiative Board, ABA Standing Committee on Judicial Independence, ABA Commission on Diversity and Inclusion 360, and as the assembly speaker of the ABA Young Lawyers Division. He was a founding board member of the Filipino Lawyers of Washington (FLOW) and the Filipino American Lawyers Association of Washington, DC (FALA DC). He is a past recipient of the Daniel Inouye Trailblazer Award and NAPABA’s “Best Lawyer Under 40.”

Rena Andoh

Rena Andoh is a litigation partner with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in New York. Her broad practice ranges from complex commercial and trade secret/restrictive covenant litigation to False Claims Act cases to intellectual property cases arising out of government contracts. Rena acts as first chair trial counsel in jury trials and arbitrations, and argues in appellate courts, including the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals and the First Department of the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division. She has extensive experience litigating in state and federal jurisdictions, particularly in the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court system. She was named to Crain’s New York 2019 list of Notable Women in Law.

In addition to managing a full-time litigation practice, Rena chairs Sheppard Mullin’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee. In that capacity, Rena oversees the firm’s initiatives to recruit, retain and promote diverse attorneys. She is currently tasked with the rollout of a number of important D&I initiatives at Sheppard Mullin.  In partnership with the firm’s Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Rena also manages the firm’s existing D&I structure, which includes the D&I Committee, the Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Council, seven existing D&I Working Groups and affinity groups for women, attorneys of color, veterans and LGBTQ+ lawyers. She interfaces closely with the firm’s Talent Management Team to ensure that the rollout of all talent management initiatives and programs support the firm’s D&I efforts, and manages internal and external D&I messaging and marketing. Rena frequently speaks on these issues both inside and outside the firm. She is the winner of the 2019 Dianne Baquet Smith Diversity & Inclusion Award for Sheppard Mullin in honor of her contributions to the firm.

The Honorable Mark Bennett (Ret)

After 24 years as a U.S. District Judge in the N.D. of Iowa Bennett retired on March 2, 2019, to accept the first Director of the Drake University Law School’s Institute for Justice Reform & Innovation.  From 1991-1994 he was a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of Iowa. He was in private practice in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1975 to 1991, having started his own law firm upon graduation from the Drake University Law School in 1975. For sixteen and a half years, he practiced primarily as a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer appearing in more than 30 federal district courts, several of the courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He argued his first case in the Supreme Court less than four years out of law school. He had three more cert. petitions granted before he was 32. He has taught at the University of Iowa College of Law, the Drake University Law School, the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, the University of Nebraska College of Law, and the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He is also on the faculty of the National Center for State Courts. In the past eight years, he has authored 27 law review articles, including two on white collar federal sentencing, five on aspects implicit bias, including an empirical study of state and federal judicial sentencing, and several others on federal issues intersecting law and cognitive psychology. He was a founding member of the National Implicit Bias Network. He has been involved in educating more than 4500 state and federal trial and appellate judges from Alaska to Florida and Maine to Hawaii on implicit bias, and many more lawyers, and court staff.  He was the first judge in the nation to both discuss implicit bias with potential jurors and to give a written instruction on implicit bias. He has authored numerous other articles, most often about judging and trial lawyers, is the co-author of a treatise on employment law, and has spoken at more than 525 CLE programs in 41 states and several foreign countries.  Judge Bennett has sat by designation in the district courts of Arizona, Idaho, M.D. of Florida, North Dakota, and the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan), as well as the Eighth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal.

Dr. Courtney Cogburn

Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and faculty of the Columbia Population Research Center. She employs a transdisciplinary research strategy to improve the characterization and measurement of racism and in examining the role of racism in the production of racial inequities in health. Dr. Cogburn’s work also explores the potential of media and technology in eradicating racism and eliminating racial inequities in health. She is the lead creator of 1000 Cut Journey, an immersive virtual reality experience of racism that premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Dr. Cogburn completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University in the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar Program and at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology, and MSW from the University of Michigan and her BA in Psychology from the University of Virginia.

Dr. Terri Cooper

Terri has a personal passion and commitment to growing and developing talent at all levels. As Chief Inclusion Officer, Terri drives Deloitte’s strategy to recruit, develop, and advance a diverse workforce and foster an inclusive environment. She is focused on advancing inclusive leadership at all levels to advance inclusion in workplaces today.

Terri has more than two decades of experience working in various capacities of the life sciences and health care industry, including participating in a broad range of strategic advisory services. She has created new global operating models; supported the integration of development, regulatory, and drug safety functions in a number of Life Sciences company mergers; restructured all aspects of the research and development (R&D) value chain; and driven increased cost and efficiency measures.

Terri serves as a frequent speaker on diversity and inclusion issues and trends. She was recently named to Crain’s 2019 New York Notable Women in Accounting. She is a board member for the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership Strategic Board of Advisors.

She holds a Joint Honors Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry and Pharmacology and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of London, UK.

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Dr. Ronald Copeland

Ronald L. Copeland, MD, FACS, is senior vice president of National Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity strategy and policy and chief equity, inclusion, and diversity officer for Kaiser Permanente.

Through multiple collaborations, he leads Kaiser Permanente’s program-wide efforts to ensure our strategic vision for equity, inclusion, and diversity is successfully implemented to drive strategic business and mission outcomes, empower communities we serve, and result in all Kaiser Permanente members achieving health and health care outcomes that are high quality, equitable, and increasingly more affordable.

Dr. Copeland is a member of Kaiser Permanente’s Executive Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Council, a group composed of the Chairman/CEO and other C-level leaders who oversee executive accountability for embedding the equity, inclusion, and diversity strategy throughout the organization. Additionally, he is chair of the Kaiser Permanente National Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Council, which advises, advocates for, and monitors the successful implementation of the equity, inclusion, and diversity strategy and policy recommendations.

A recently retired board-certified general surgeon, Dr. Copeland joined Kaiser Permanente in 1988 after a six-year honorable tour of duty in the United States Air Force Medical Corps. Dr. Copeland served as president and executive medical director of the Ohio Permanente Medical Group prior to assuming his current role in 2012.

The Rochester, N.Y., native earned his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his medical degree from University of Cincinnati Medical College. He completed his residency in general surgery at State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. He also attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Dr. Copeland is a board member of Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, the National Organization on Disability and the Center for Healthcare Innovation; an advisory board member for the Centre for Global Inclusion; a member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Equity Advisory Group; and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Recent Awards:

2016         Becker’s Hospital Review recognized Dr. Copeland as one of “15 hospital and health systems chief diversity officers to know.”

2019         Western Regional Minority Supplier Development Council Executive of the Year

2019    Black Doctors.Org  Top Blacks in Healthcare

Karol Denniston

Karol K. Denniston is a partner with Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP.  Karol is a member of the Global Board and a member of the Firm’s Advancing Women Task Force where she is working on a number of projects that relate to intrinsic bias.  Karol is a bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer and for the last 35 years has focused on consensus building and consensual out of court restructurings.  For the last 10 years Karol has focused on distressed municipalities.  Karol is rated by Legal 500 as a Leading Lawyer for her municipal restructuring work.  Karol’s full bio can be viewed at https://www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/professionals/d/denniston-karol-k.

Professor Lucian Dervan

Lucian E. Dervan is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of Criminal Justice Studies at Belmont University College of Law. He focuses on domestic and international criminal law and is the recipient of numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship.

Professor Dervan is the author of two books and dozens of book chapters and articles. He is also the founder and author of The Plea Bargaining Blog and a contributing editor to the White Collar Crime Prof Blog (a member of the Law Professor Blogs Network). He also regularly lectures regarding criminal law and has appeared before the United States House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee on two occasions and recently testified before the Federal Senate of Brazil regarding pending plea bargaining legislation.

In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Professor Dervan currently serves as Chair of the American Bar Association Commission on the American Jury and Immediate Past Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section. He is also the Chair of the ABA CJS Global White Collar Crime Institute and serves on the Advisory Committee of the NACDL White Collar Criminal Defense College at Stetson.

Prior to joining the academy, Professor Dervan served as a law clerk to the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He also practiced law with King & Spalding LLP and Ford & Harrison LLP. At King & Spalding LLP, Professor Dervan was a member of the Special Matters and Government Investigations team. The Special Matters team was established by former United States Attorney General Griffin B. Bell in 1989 to represent corporations and individuals in complex federal and state criminal investigations, internal investigations, and Congressional investigations, as well as in related civil and regulatory proceedings.

Professor Dervan received his Juris Doctorate with High Honors from Emory University School of Law, where he was an Emory Scholar, served as an Articles Editor for the Emory Law Journal, and was elected a member of the Order of the Coif.  He received his Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Davidson College.

You can follow him on Twitter at @LucianDervan.

The Honorable Bernice Donald

The Honorable Bernice Bouie Donald was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit by President Barack Hussein Obama on December 1, 2010 and re-nominated in January 2011. She was confirmed 96-2 by the Senate on September 6, 2011. Prior to joining the Court of Appeals, Judge Donald served on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, where she was appointed by President William Jefferson Clinton in December 1995. Judge Donald served as Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Tennessee from June 1988 to January 1996. She was the first African American women in the history of the United States to serve as a bankruptcy judge. When she was elected to the General Sessions Criminal Court in 1982, she became the first African American woman to serve as a judge in the history of the State of Tennessee.

Judge Donald received her law degree from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, where she later served as a member of the Alumni, Law Alumni, and University Foundation Boards of Directors and as an adjunct faculty member. She received a Master of Judicial Studies from Duke University School of Law and an honorary Doctors in Law from Suffolk University. She frequently serves as faculty for the National Judicial College and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC), and she served as a member of the FJC’s Board of Directors from 2003 through 2007. For the past five years, Judge Donald has served as faculty for the National Trial Advocacy program at the University of Virginia. On October 22, 2018, Judge Donald delivered the distinguished James Madison Lecture at the New York University School of Law. She has served as a Jurist in Residence at the University of Cincinnati, Washington, American, and University of Georgia Schools of Law.

In 1996, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist appointed Judge Donald to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules, where she served for six years. In 2011, 2 Chief Justice John G. Roberts appointed her to an indefinite term on the Judicial Branch Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. On October 1, 2019, Chief Justice Roberts again appointed Judge Donald to serve on the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules, where she serves as Liaison to the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules.

An internationally recognized legal scholar, Judge Donald has lectured and trained judges around the world for many years. Judge Donald has served as faculty for numerous international programs, including Romania, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Bosnia, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Rwanda, Tanzania, Russia, Egypt, Morocco, Thailand, Uganda, Kenya, Cambodia, Vietnam, The Philippines, and Armenia. In 2003, Judge Donald led a People to People delegation to Johannesburg, and Cape Town, South African and traveled to Zimbabwe to monitor the trial of a judge accused of judicial misconduct.

Judge Donald is an active and dedicated member to both the American Bar Association and the National Bar Association. She currently serves as the Chair of the National Bar Association’s Judicial Council Education Committee.

Judge Donald has served as President of the National Association of Women Judges and the Association of Women Attorneys. And in June 2005, Judge Donald co-founded 4-Life, a skills training and enrichment program for students ages 6 to 15 designed to teach children to become positive productive citizens.

Judge Donald has been the recipient of over 100 awards for professional, civic, and community activities, including the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Memphis, the Martin Luther King Community Service Award, and the Benjamin Hooks Award presented in 2002 by the Memphis Bar Foundation. In 2013, Judge Donald was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Judicature Society, and in August of 2013, she was featured 3 in the Federal Lawyer Magazine. During the 2013 annual meeting of the National Bar Association, Judge Donald received the William H. Hastie Award. The Hastie Award is the Judicial Council’s highest award and is presented to recognize excellence in legal and judicial scholarship and demonstrated commitment to justice under the law. In 2013, Judge Donald also received the Difference Makers Award from the Solo, Small Firm & General Practice Division of the ABA, and the Pioneer Award from her fellow classmates at East Side High. Judge Donald received the Justice William Brennan Award by the University of Virginia in January of 2014, and the Pickering Award from the Senior Lawyers Division of the ABA in August 2014. In 2017, Judge Donald received the prestigious Margaret Brent Award from the ABA Commission on Women for her service to the profession. Most recently, Judge Donald received the 2019 Pillars of Excellence Award, designed to recognize attorneys who have made significant contributions to the practice of law in their civic and professional lives.

Professor Patty Ferguson-Bohnee

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Professor Ferguson-Bohnee is the Director of the Indian Legal Clinic, Faculty Director of the Indian Legal Program, and Clinical Professor of Law, at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Professor Ferguson-Bohnee has substantial experience in Indian law, election law and voting rights, and status clarification for tribes.  She has assisted in complex voting rights litigation on behalf of tribes, and has drafted amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court for tribal clients with respect to voting rights issues.  She serves as the Native Vote Election Protection Coordinator for the State of Arizona and has testified before Congress regarding Indian voting issues.  Professor Ferguson-Bohnee has also testified before the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the Louisiana State Legislature regarding tribal recognition.  She successfully assisted four bayou tribes in obtaining recognition from the State of Louisiana.  More recently, she has been involved in advocating for the rights of unrecognized tribes in response to environmental disasters.

Professor Ferguson-Bohnee is involved in many organizations to improve access to justice and to increase the pipeline to law for underrepresented groups.  She is a founding member of the Native American Bar Association of Arizona, the past president of the National Native American Bar Association, and the Co-Chair of the Native American Concerns Committee of the Civil Rights and Social Justice Section of the American Bar Association.  She served on the ABA Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice, where she organized conferences on the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Indian Country.

Professor Ferguson-Bohnee received her Bachelors degree with Honors in Native American Studies with an Emphasis in Policy and Law from Stanford University and her Juris Doctorate from Columbia University School of Law with a certificate in Foreign and Comparative Law.

Professor Ferguson-Bohnee is a member of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe.

The Honorable Jeremy Fogel

On September 17, 2018, Judge Jeremy Fogel became the first Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, a center at Berkeley Law School whose mission is to build bridges between judges and academics and to promote an ethical, resilient and independent judiciary. Prior to his appointment at Berkeley, he served as Director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC (2011-2018), as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of California (1998-2011), and as a judge of the Santa Clara County Superior (1986-1998) and Municipal (1981-1986) Courts. He was the founding Directing

Attorney of the Mental Health Advocacy Project from 1978 to 1981. Judge Fogel has served as a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center since 2002 and was a lecturer at Stanford Law School from 2003 until his relocation to Washington. He taught for the California Continuing Judicial Studies Program and California Judicial College from 1987 to 2010 and has served as a faculty member for legal exchanges in more than a dozen foreign countries. He received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1971 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1974.

Judge Fogel has received numerous accolades, including the President’s Award for Outstanding Service to the California Judiciary from the California Judges Association and the  Vanguard Award for notable contributions to intellectual property law from the State Bar of California. In 2002, he received special recognition from the Santa Clara County Bar Association for exemplifying the highest standards of professionalism in the judiciary.

Tony Greenwald

Anthony G. Greenwald was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. He is presently Professor of Psychology at University of Washington (1986-present) and was previously at Ohio State University (1965-86). Greenwald received his BA from Yale (1959) and PhD from Harvard (1963). He has published over 180 scholarly articles, served on editorial boards of 13 psychological journals, and has received three major research career awards — the Donald T. Campbell Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (1995), the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (2006), the William James Fellow Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Psychological Science (2013), and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the American Psychological Association (jointly with Mahzarin Banaji, 2017). Greenwald provoked modern attention to the psychological self with his 1980 article, “The Totalitarian Ego”. His 1990s methods made unconscious cognition and subliminal perception orderly research topics. In 1995 Greenwald invented the Implicit Association Test (IAT; published in 1998 and surpassing 5,000 scholarly citations in 2013). The IAT rapidly became a standard for assessing individual differences in implicit social cognition. Its method has provided the basis for three patent applications and numerous applications in clinical psychology, education, marketing, and diversity management. The story of the IAT’s development and significance appears in Blindspot: Hidden biases of good people (Delacorte Press, 2013, co-authored with Mahzarin Banaji).

Elaine Guarnieri-Nunn

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Elaine Guarnieri-Nunn, San Francisco Executive Director,  joined Facing History’s San Francisco Bay Area team in September 2014 and became regional director in July 2015. She first worked with Facing History as a program associate in Los Angeles from 1997 to 2001, and has been involved in urban school reform for more than 25 years. Prior to joining Facing History, Elaine was the Executive Director of EnCorps STEM Teachers Program and a faculty member in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has taught in schools in New York City, East Los Angeles, and Hayward, California.

Dr. Leticia Smith-Evans Haynes

Leticia Smith-Evans Haynes is the Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity at Williams College.  She is a member of the college’s senior staff, and in her role, she serves as the institution’s primary strategist working to ensure the Williams community is diverse, equitable and inclusive.  She brings more than two decades of experience as an administrator, educator, civil rights advocate, and lawyer.

Haynes directs the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, which includes the Davis Center and the Office of Special Academic Programs, and committees and initiatives focused on matters of diversity, equity and inclusion.  As the college’s chief diversity officer, she leads the institution’s departments and committees that develop and implement non-discrimination policies, facilitate critical conversations on equity and inclusion, assess campus climate, resolve conflicts, advise and mentor students and faculty, support academic pathway programs, and recruit and retain a diverse faculty, staff, and student body.  She engages the broader community to create and sustain diverse, equitable, and inclusive places where families live, learn, and work. 

Haynes has been lauded for her work as a strategist, facilitator, and problem-solver and keeping matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the fore of conversation and action.

Immediately prior to joining Williams, Haynes directed the Education Practice at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and used legal and policy advocacy to ensure access to equal educational opportunities at the pre-kindergarten through post-secondary education levels. Her portfolio at LDF included school desegregation and integration, access to higher education and ending the school-to-prison pipeline.

 Throughout her career, Haynes has contributed to and helped shape the national dialogue around best practices in education.  In addition, she has led coalitions working to advance the rights of individuals with disabilities, racial and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and immigrants. She has successfully argued before state and federal trial and appellate courts, most recently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a case in which she represented plaintiffs in a decades-old school desegregation case.  She recently co-authored Eliminating Excessive and Disparate School Discipline: A Review of Research and Policy Reform in Inequality in School Discipline (2016) and Unlocking Opportunity for African American Girls: A Call to Action for Educational Equity (2014).

Haynes has served as adjunct faculty at a number of educational institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School of Education.  She is an alumna of Williams College (B.A.) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (J.D., M.S., Ph.D.).

Dean Beth Kransberger

Beth Kransberger is a higher education leader and consultant with more than 25 years of experience working to abate implicit bias in the P-20 educational pipeline to the workforce. A lawyer by training, she also consults for universities, law schools, professional organizations and non-profit groups on diversity, equity and inclusion; working to craft sustainable, systemic strategies for recruitment, advancement, retention, interventions and crisis response. Ms. Kransberger is a national speaker on issues of race, gender, LGBTQIA topics, race conscious remedies, educational equity and access to education. She resides in San Diego where she works to support systemic, as well as grass top anti-bias efforts. She serves as a mayoral appointee to the of the City of San Diego’s Citizens Equal Opportunity Commission; as a board member for the Cesar Chavez Service Clubs and Teach for America San Diego; and is also a member of the San Diego Continuing Education Foundation’s Advisory Board. Ms. Kransberger is past chair of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section’s LGBT Committee and is a member of the national Advisory Board for the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Program in Health Disparities’ HELM Program. She currently serves as Vice President for Community Engagement at National University, where she leads a county-wide, collaborative effort to further diversify the teaching pipeline in an attempt to redress the school-to-prison pipeline and differential discipline rates based on race and gender identity.

Dr. Calvin Lai

Dr. Calvin Lai is an assistant professor and social psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis and the Director of Research at Project Implicit, a non-profit for research and education on implicit bias. He studies subtle or hidden biases with a focus on developing interventions to mitigate their pernicious effects. This has included research on topics such as reducing implicit bias, preventing hiring discrimination, and mitigating racial inequities in policing. For his work, he was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in 2017. Dr. Lai completed his PhD at the University of Virginia and his post-doctoral training at Harvard University.

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Lai, C. K., & Banaji, M.R. (in press). The psychology of implicit intergroup bias and the prospect of change. In D. Allen & R. Somanathan (Eds.), Difference without domination: Pursuing justice in diverse democracies. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

• This paper reviews research on three approaches to reducing the impact of implicit bias on behavior: reducing implicit bias directly, changing habits and motivations, and re-designing situations.

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Axt, J. R., & Lai, C. K. (2019). Reducing discrimination: A bias versus noise perspective. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 117, 26-49.

• This paper examines how to reduce discrimination in decision-making (e.g., admissions), finding that one can reduce discrimination by either targeting bias (i.e., reducing the proportion of decision-making errors in favor of a group) or by targeting noise (i.e., reducing the total number of decision-making errors).

Jean Lee

Jean Lee is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), a national organization focused on hiring, promoting and retaining women and diverse attorneys by providing cutting-edge research, best practices, professional development and training.

Prior to joining MCCA, Ms. Lee served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at JP Morgan Chase & Co. where she worked on consumer litigation and regulatory matters.  Before joining JP Morgan Chase & Co. in 2011, Ms. Lee worked on litigation matters at a boutique litigation firm in New York City and started her career as a law clerk to the Honorable John J. Hughes, United States Magistrate Judge (retired), in the District of New Jersey.

She graduated from New York University with a B.A. in Politics and Psychology and a M.S.W. in Social Work.  Ms. Lee received her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, where she was a Senior Editor of the Rutgers Law Record.

Ms. Lee served as the President of the Asian American Bar Association of New York in 2012. In 2014, the Council of Urban Professionals recognized Ms. Lee as a Catalyst: Change Agent | Law and in 2015, she was recognized as a Trailblazer by the Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York.  Currently, she serves on the Select Committee for the Legends in Law Award for the Burton Foundation.

Professor Justin Levinson

Professor Levinson is a leader in the field of implicit bias and the law and an expert in psychological decision-making in the legal system.  His scholarship, which regularly employs experimental social science methodology, has appeared in the NYU Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, UCLA Law Review, and Duke Law Journal, among others, and has been cited by the United States Supreme Court.  Professor Levinson served as lead editor of Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law, a volume that was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 (co-edited by Robert J. Smith).  He has lectured, taught courses, and trained audiences globally, including in Eastern and Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.

In 2008, Professor Levinson founded the Culture and Jury Project, an interdisciplinary and international research collaboration devoted to facilitating the study of human decision-making in the law.  He is currently collaborating with scholars in China, Japan, and Korea, as well as domestically in the United States.

Professor Levinson previously practiced corporate law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California.  He has served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Beijing University, and as a Fellow at the Culture and Cognition Lab at UC Berkeley.  He regularly teaches Business Associations, Law and Psychology, Corporate Finance, High Growth Entrepreneurship, and has offered a seminar on Implicit Bias and the Law

Janet Liang

Janet Liang is the president of the Northern California Region of Kaiser Foundation health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals.  In this role, she directs Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Region, providing high-quality and affordable care and coverage for the region’s over 4.4 million members and operating 21 hospitals and a large network of medical offices, continuum care and ancillary services locations across the region.

Liang was appointed chief operating officer in June 2014 where she was responsible for advancing the organization strategy and performance of health plan and hospital operations and regional functions including Human Resources, Continuum of Care, Quality and Regulatory Services and Information Technology.

Liang is a native San Franciscan, with 24 years of experience in the health care industry.  Prior to returning to Northern California, she was the president of Kaiser Permanente Hawaii for seven years, and held executive roles over a 15-year career at Group Health Cooperative in Washington State.

Liang is an active community steward.  She has served on numerous community boards supporting education and socio-economic development.  She is currently a member of the board of trustees for the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, Board of Governors for Chaminade University, chair for the American Heart Association’s 2016 Heart of Gold Campaign and the executive sponsor for Kaiser Permanente Asian Association.

In 2009, she was named one of the “30 Working Mothers of the Year” by Working Mothers national women’s magazine.  In 2015, she was honored by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the most influential women in Bay Area Business. She is a sought-after speaker on the topics of leadership, business transformation and the value of integrated health care.

Liang holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston University and a master’s degree in health administration from the University of Washington.

Dr. Shawn Marsh

Shawn C. Marsh, Ph.D. is the Director of the Judicial Studies Graduate Degree Program and Associate Professor of Judicial Studies, Communication Studies, and Social Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. As the Director of Judicial Studies, he oversees the nation’s only program to offer both a Masters and Ph.D. degree in judicial studies exclusively for sitting judges. He also is the former Chief Program Officer for Juvenile Law at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) where he taught and provided technical assistance on topics such as implicit bias and trauma-responsive justice, and oversaw myriad national projects focused on child welfare, juvenile justice, judicial decision-making, school engagement, and trauma/victimization. Dr. Marsh is a social psychologist with research and teaching interests in the areas of psychology and the law, bias and decision-making, dispute resolution, adolescent development, trauma, resiliency, and juvenile justice. His background also includes working with youth in detention and correction settings as an educator and mental health clinician, and he has been a licensed school counselor, professional counselor, and clinical professional counselor. In his current position at the University and prior position at the NCJFCJ, Dr. Marsh has served on numerous national advisory committees, including the U.S. National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Task Force, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control STRYVE Youth Violence Prevention Council, the U.S. Office of Victims of Crime Coordinating Systems of Care Steering Committee, and the National Training Team for Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts coordinated by the National Center for State Courts.

Molly Moran

Molly currently serves as Uber Technologies Inc.’s Associate General Counsel for the United States and Canada.  Molly joined Uber after serving nearly eight years in a number of high-profile positions in the Obama Administration, including: Acting General Counsel at the Department of Transportation (2016); Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General at DOJ (2015-2016); Acting head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division (2014); Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to Attorney General Eric Holder (2010-2014); and Deputy Assistant Attorney General at DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy.

Prior to the Obama Administration, Molly was a litigation partner at Jenner & Block where she managed a diverse range of complex litigation and investigations, and also maintained an active pro bono practice.  Molly earned a law degree, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science, from Indiana University – Bloomington.

Dr. J. Renee Navarro

As the inaugural vice chancellor for diversity and outreach at University of California, San Francisco Renee Chapman Navarro, Pharm D, MD provides strategic vision and leadership to build a broadly diverse faculty, student, trainee and staff community, to nurture a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and to engage diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery and patient care.  She describes this work as “the strategic disruption of the status quo”.

 Dr. Navarro holds a Pharm D from the University of the Pacific and a MD from the University of California, San Francisco.  A board-certified anesthesiologist, she joined the Anesthesia Faculty and progressed rapidly to leadership positions and promotion to professor.  She served as the Medical Director of Perioperative Services for 10 years and was elected by her peers to serve as the Chief of the Medical Staff.  She was selected by the dean to serve as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs within the school of medicine, where she championed the needs of women and underrepresented minorities.

Dr. Navarro has served as an examiner for the American Board of Anesthesia. She also served as a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Committee on Professional Diversity, the ASA Professional Issues Education Committee and the Women in Anesthesia Committee. Dr. Navarro is committed to public service, serving on the San Mateo Commission on the Status of Women, the San Mateo Commission on Disabilities and was the founding Chair of the Group on Women in Medicine and Science for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).  She is currently the chair of the AAMC’s Group on Diversity and Inclusion and is leading the UCSF Action Collaborative to address gender harassment and sexual misconduct in academic medicine in response to the National Academies 2018 Report.

The Office of Diversity and Outreach has significantly advanced diversity and inclusion within the campus community and was awarded the 2016 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from Insight into Diversity Magazine.

Her scholarship has focused on STEMM diversity and continuous quality improvement in health equity for patients at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFGH) and Trauma Center. She was honored for her leadership and advocacy on behalf of underserved patient populations in San Francisco by Mayor Willie Brown, with a proclamation designating “J. Renee Navarro Day in San Francisco”.

 Contribution to:

AAMC Publication Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Medicine:  A Strategic Planning Guide, 2014

(https://store.aamc.org/diversity-and-inclusion-in-academic-medicine-a-strategic-planning-guide-pdf.html).

Dr. Jason Okonofua

Dr. Jason Okonofua is an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was trained at Stanford University under the guidance of Jennifer Eberhardt, Gregory Walton, and Carol Dweck.

Jason’s research program examines social-psychological processes that contribute to inequality. One context in which he has examined these processes is that of teacher-student relationships and race disparities in disciplinary action. His research emphasizes the on-going interplay between psychological/mindset processes that originate among teachers (how stereotyping can influence discipline) and students (how apprehension to bias can incite misbehavior) to examine causes for disproportionate discipline according to race. The intersection of these processes, Jason hypothesizes, undermines teacher-student relationships over time, contributes to disproportionate discipline to racially stigmatized students, and ultimately feeds the “school-to-prison” pipeline. By investigating basic processes that contribute to misinterpreted and misguided disrespect among teachers and students, he aims to develop novel interventions that empower teachers to reach their teaching goals and interventions that help students – especially racially stigmatized youth – succeed in school and reduce their risk of discipline problems.

He also designs and tests large-scale psychological interventions for school administrators, jails, prisons, and court departments (e.g., probation offices, parole offices). One of his latest interventions halved suspension rates in middle schools across three school districts from a 9.6% rate to a 4.8% rate. The intervention was geared toward shifting teachers’ mindsets to show more empathy toward students and shifting students’ mindsets to be more agentic and motivated to value education and succeed in school.

His research has been published in top journals, including Psychological Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The work has been funded by Google, the Tides Foundation, Character Lab, and the Bureau for Justice Statistics. It has been featured on a variety of popular media outlets, including National Public Radio, New York Times, MSNBC, Reuters, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Wall Street Journal, and Education Week.

Find out more at: www.jokonofua.com

Kim Parker

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Kim has spent 37 years as a criminal justice litigator, policy maker, administrator and manager. She has been a member of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Council since 2011 and currently serves as the Chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the ABA. Her contribution to the ABA Criminal Justice Section includes work with the Executive Committee for the Council, Criminal Discovery Standards Task Force, Diversion Standards Task Force and Women in Criminal Justice Advisory Council.

As a Kansas prosecutor for over 30 years she has litigated crimes of violence against women and children including sexual assault, child abuse, domestic violence and homicide cases. Kim also served on the State of Kansas Child Death Review Board for over 10 years and worked for over 7 years on sentencing, reentry and recodification projects for Kansas Judicial Council.

Kim has been active in the development, implementation and training of Best Practices for Prosecutors on national, state and local levels. She currently works with Kansas legislators to improve the government response to children who have suffered from neglect and abuse on behalf of the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Kansas, as well as working to improve the Criminal Justice System as a Prosecutor Coordinator for the Kansas County and District Attorney’s Association.

Her roles in the criminal justice practice include prosecution, defense and District Court Judge. Her service to the legal profession and to her communities has been recognized as listed here.

HONORS and AWARDS

Kansas District Attorney’s Association Lifetime Achievement Award Wichita Bar Association Outstanding Community Leadership

Kansas District Attorney’s Association, Outstanding Prosecutor of the Year National Parents of Murdered Children Father Czillinger Award

National Business and Professional Women’s Woman of the Year Wichita Crime Commission, Criminal Justice Professional Attorneys in Capital Litigation, Award for Outstanding Advocacy National District Attorneys Presidents Award

Eva Paterson

Civil rights attorney Eva Jefferson Paterson is co-founder and President of the Equal Justice Society, a nonprofit organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts.

She previously served 13 years as Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. At the Lawyers’ Committee, she was part of a broad coalition that filed the groundbreaking anti-discrimination suit against race and gender discrimination by the San Francisco Fire Department. That lawsuit successfully desegregated the department, winning new opportunities for women and firefighters of color.

Paterson is co-chair of the California Civil Rights Coalition (CCRC), which she co-founded and previously chaired for 18 years. As co-chair of CCRC she was a leading spokesperson in the campaigns against Proposition 187 (anti-immigrant) and Proposition 209 (anti-affirmative action) and numerous other statewide campaigns against the death penalty, juvenile incarceration and discrimination against lesbians and gay men. She also served as Vice President of the ACLU National Board for eight years, and chaired the boards of Equal Rights Advocates and the San Francisco Bar Association Foundation.

Paterson has received numerous awards, including the Fay Stender Award from the California Women Lawyers, Woman of the Year from the Black Leadership Forum, the Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award from the ACLU of Northern California, and the Alumni Award of Merit from Northwestern University.

As a 20-year-old student leader at a time of turmoil, Eva Jefferson Paterson was catapulted into the national spotlight when she debated then-Vice President Spiro Agnew on live television. Dubbed the “peaceful warrior” for fostering non-violent protest in the aftermath of the 1970 shooting of student demonstrators at Kent State University, she was named one of Mademoiselle’s “Ten Young Women of the Year,” featured on the covers of Ebony and Jet, and called to testify before Congress.

She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she received her B.A. in political science and was elected the first African American student body president. She received her law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law.

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Professor Sarah Redfield

Sarah Redfield is Professor Emerita at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. She is a member of the Maine Bar.

Education law is her primary practice and teaching area. Her research and scholarship are focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the legal profession and along the education pipeline. Her current work continues her long-standing DEI interest and concentrates on implicit bias and on strategies to interrupt that bias and reduce the negative consequences of its manifestations in legal, medical, education, and workplace environments.

With Judge Bernice Donald, Professor Redfield is Co-Chair of the Criminal Justice Section Implicit Bias Initiative. She also currently serves on several high-level American Bar Association (ABA) diversity initiatives including the Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council; the ABA Commission on Disability Rights; and the Criminal Justice Section Women’s Task Force.

Professor Redfield is a nationally respected author, presenter, and trainer. She is the editor and chapter author of the ABA book on implicit bias, Enhancing Justice: Reducing Bias. Her recent publications also include Implicit Bias, PLI Current and Reversing the School-to-Prison Pipeline Preliminary Report, 47 Memphis Law Review 1. She was a lead author for the ABA Section on Litigation’s Toolbox on Implicit Bias, lead consultant for the ABA project on Achieving an Impartial Jury, and the expert advisor for the State Bar of California’s online bias course. Her recent presentations include various iterations of Implicit Bias, Bias Interruption, and Leadership D&I Training for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Arizona State University, the Florida Criminal Justice Summit, U.S. Attorney Offices, and other agencies and non-profits. She has worked for over a decade training judges, lawyers, and educators from all areas of practice and all parts of the country; more recently her work has included work with NGOs interested in improving their diversity and equity profile.

Professor Redfield earned her B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College, her J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law, and her LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Prior to her teaching career, Professor Redfield served as Assistant Attorney General and Associate Commissioner of Agriculture for the State of Maine.

Professor Redfield is the proud mother of two young adults, Alex Redfield and Althea Rose Redfield.

Stephen Reynolds

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Stephen Reynolds is a partner in Ice Miller’s Litigation Group, member of the Data Security and Privacy Practice and of the Firm’s Board of Directors. Stephen frequently advises clients on complex matters involving data security and privacy laws and serves on the board of directors of the International  Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

He has represented companies in several types of litigation, including data security and privacy matters, products liability cases, construction litigation, trade secrets litigation, and other commercial litigation.

Originally from Sebastian, Florida, Stephen earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida in 2004. Upon graduation, he was employed as a computer programmer and IT analyst. Stephen received his juris doctor from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2008, where he was a member of the Indiana Law Journal.

As a former computer programmer and IT analyst, Stephen is uniquely able to and routinely uses his computer background in cases involving data security and privacy, electronic discovery, social media discovery, and computer forensics. Stephen has given several presentations on data security and privacy, electronic discovery and social media discovery, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). In addition to being a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Stephen teaches CISSP classes as a Direct Instructor with the (ISC)². Stephen is also one of the leaders of Ice Miller’s Internet of Things (IoT) industry initiative. He has worked with manufacturers of interconnected devices to identify risks associated with collecting and transferring of data, respond to cyber-attacks, and assist with reporting obligations and corrective action plans with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

Along with Nick Merker, Stephen teaches a course on Data Security and Privacy Law at the Robert H. McKinney School of Law: Indiana University. Additionally, Stephen has extensive experience representing health care providers and mental health facilities in civil commitment hearings and proceedings regarding the release of mental health and other health care records.

Yolanda Sanders

Gap, Inc. is one of the world’s leading retailers, boasting over 140,000 employees and $16B in annual revenue from its portfolio of brands including Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta, Intermix, Hill City, and Janie and Jack.  As Associate General Counsel, Yolanda Sanders leads Gap Inc.’s Global Employment Law team, navigating the legal challenges that impact the Company’s people, customers and iconic brands worldwide.  Ms. Sanders provides counsel on various employment law matters, including recruiting, hiring, terminations, wage and hour, pay equity, leaves and accommodations, performance management and organizational restructures, background screening and fair chance laws to name a few.

As head of Global Employment Law, Ms. Sanders works closely with Gap. Inc.’s. Equality and Belonging team to develop and implement the Company’s Inclusion by Design strategy.  Ms. Sanders is a 2019 Legal Council on Legal Diversity Fellow and on the Advisory Board for Diversity Lab’s MRLD 2.0.  Within Gap, she is a member of the Legal Department’s Legal Diversity Committee, which is committed to ensuring diversity within the Department as well as in the legal profession and pipeline.

Dr. Virginia Valian

Virginia Valian is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and is a member of the doctoral faculties of Psychology, Linguistics, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. She directs the Language Acquisition Research Center at Hunter College, which studies the acquisition of syntax in young children and the relation between bilingualism and cognition in adults.  She is co-founder and director of Hunter’s Gender Equity Project.
In her work on gender equity Dr Valian performs research on the reasons behind women’s slow advancement in the professions and proposes remedies for individuals and institutions. She is the author of Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (1998, MIT Press) and is co-author, with Abigail Stewart, of An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence (2018, MIT Press).  Dr Valian’s recent work on gender includes an opinion piece on sexual harassment (Nature, 2019), a co-authored policy piece on gender in science (Science, 2019), and a co-authored article in PNAS (2018) on the gender of speakers at university colloquia.

www.virginiavalian.org

www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity

Dr. Carla Wicks

Dr. Carla Victoria Wicks is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist with The Permanente Medical Group in the East Bay.  Originally from Chicago, Illinois, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.  Dr. Wicks completed her Doctor of Medicine degree at Howard University in Washington, DC and then moved to the west coast and completed training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center.  Dr. Wicks joined The Permanente Medical Group after residency and has been in practice at the Richmond facility since 2006.

Dr. Wicks has held several leadership roles including Site Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Richmond, Assistant Chief of Service for East Bay Obstetrics and Gynecology, Assistant Physician-In-Chief (APIC) of Care Experience and Diversity in Kaiser Permanente, East Bay, and a host of other roles.  She is currently serving as the TPMG Regional Director of Culturally Responsive Care and Inclusion.  In this new role for TPMG, her vision is to cultivate a culturally responsive and inclusive care climate by aligning the intentions, practices, and actions to meet the needs of the people, patients and communities we serve in Northern California.

Dr. Wicks’ clinical practice embodies general Obstetrics and Gynecology in which she is dedicated to serving a diverse and underserved community.  She is a member of numerous professional medical societies, social organizations, and is very involved in several volunteer organizations in the community.  She enjoys spending time with her loving husband and three adorable children while traveling the world, doing yoga, reading historical fiction, immersing in the world of fashion & design, and playing tennis.

Jennifer Winslow

As COO of Diversity Lab, Jennifer Winslow oversees all of the Lab’s initiatives, including the OnRamp Fellowship, the only global returnship program for the legal profession. She joined Caren Ulrich Stacy in launching the Fellowship in January 2014.

After graduating from UCLA School of Law, Jennifer began her legal career as an associate at Morrison & Foerster in Los Angeles. After practicing for six years, she refocused her career on attorney and law student recruitment and development, as well as diversity initiatives for the legal profession.

As a Managing Director for Major, Lindsey & Africa, Jennifer counseled lateral attorney candidates on their job searches and collaborated with law firms seeking to fill specialized roles. In the University of Colorado Law School’s Career Development Office, she managed the on-campus interview and judicial clerkship programs. While serving as the school’s representative to the Colorado Pledge to Diversity Committee, she worked with leaders of the state’s efforts to increase the number of underrepresented attorneys within the profession. Jennifer speaks frequently on issues related to recruiting, retaining, and advancing women and underrepresented lawyers.

Angelic Young

Angelic Young is responsible for the development and oversight of implementation of ADL’s national law enforcement training curricula including the Managing Implicit Bias training program. Prior to joining ADL in October 2017, Angelic served six years as Director of National Action Plans at the Institute for Inclusive Security, where she worked closely with foreign governments to develop and implement plans for better integrating women and women’s perspectives into the security sector (including law enforcement). Before IIS, she spent ten years leading law enforcement professionalization programs for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the US Department of State. Angelic is an adjunct professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, where she’s taught International Police Operations for 13 years. Angelic holds a B.A. in Politics and Women Studies from Willamette University and a Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Sophia Zeinu

Sophia is a Manager in Deloitte Consulting’s Human Capital Practice and the D&I Next Gen Solutions lead for Deloitte’s Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Practice. She has extensive human capital consulting experience at Deloitte, specializing in D&I assessments, D&I strategy development and execution, custom inclusive leadership/unconscious bias experiential lab design and facilitation, change management, communications, and social media marketing across the public and private sector. She uses her experience supporting global clients navigate large-scale transformations to bring client D&I efforts from insight to impact. Leveraging her passion for human-centered design, she develops actionable D&I strategies and solutions that create inclusive cultures where disruptive innovation thrives and as an experienced D&I facilitator, she has facilitated D&I sessions for over 2500 employees at Fortune 500 organizations.

Sophia holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Sociology from Georgetown University.

Mark Zemelman

Mark S. Zemelman is Senior Vice President & General Counsel at Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.  From 1998 until his promotion to General Counsel in 2010, Mr. Zemelman managed a group of lawyers providing legal support for the corporate and business operations of Kaiser Permanente.  Historically, his individual legal practice has been primarily in the areas of regulation of tax-exempt health plans and hospitals, business litigation, negotiation and drafting of contracts, and environmental law.

Mr. Zemelman has a long-standing commitment to diversity in the legal profession.  With his guidance, the Legal Department has greatly increased the use of women and minority-owned law firms as well as developed internal programs.  These are resulting in better diversity and inclusion with the department.  Mr. Zemelman has been an active member of the Board of Directors of the California Minority Counsel Program for many years and is frequently invited to speak and brainstorm with industry leaders about further diversifying the legal profession.  He is a magna cum laude graduate of Hastings College of the Law and served as judicial extern for Justice Joseph Grodin of the California Supreme Court.