Corporate Counsel Women of Color 2022 Next Gen Emerging Millennial Leader Award Winners
Corporate Counsel Women of Color
ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, September 8, 2022/EINPresswire.com/ — Hundreds of attorneys, will descend on downtown Atlanta to have fun the Corporate Counsel Women of Color 18th Annual Career Strategies Conference. This yr’s hybrid occasion hosted by the CCWC showcases the skills of the nation’s prime authorized eagles. Women from throughout the nation will collect within the Peach State from October fifth to October eighth.
During the four-day convention, attendees will glean from seasoned business minds like Hall of Famer Laila Ali, Grammy award-winning musician Common, Chief Diversity Officer for NBC Craig Robinson, Christina Swarns of the Innocence Project, and Shelita M. Stewart, Partner at Hogan Lovells. These headliners mesh the world of leisure, business, and politics to result in consciousness and societal change.
The Corporate Counsel Women of Color (CCWC) is the main advocate for range, fairness, and inclusion within the authorized career. Each yr the CCWC vets the most effective and brightest from all through the nation to focus on the tireless work of these within the authorized career who struggle to convey a voice to the unvoiced. In addition, this fall, CCWC introduced its Next Gen Emerging Millennial Leader Award winners. This new award, in its second yr, acknowledges younger attorneys of coloration who possess excellent authorized expertise, revolutionary expertise, and a robust dedication and dedication to serving their communities.
In a time when girls of coloration make up solely 10 % of U.S. attorneys, CCWC stands as a beacon of hope for the following era. In that vein, a committee of senior attorneys from companies and personal regulation practices chosen these winners from a pool of their friends.
The awardees shall be honored at CCWC’s 18th Annual Career Strategies Conference in Atlanta on Friday, October seventh. The six winners of this coveted award and their respective employers are:
• Melissa A. Martinez (AmeriSource Bergen) – Holds her J.D. and MBA from Rutgers University. She makes use of her twin levels in chapter regulation.
• Lisa M. Kpor (Holland & Knight LLP) Kpor serves the Windy City as a DEI proponent and is a widely known leisure and product legal responsibility lawyer.
• Ada Okafor (American Board of Surgery), The Nigerian-born legal professional who now calls the City of Brotherly house, serves because the General Counsel and Chief Diversity Equity and Inclusion Officer for ABS.
• Heather Benjamin (Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP) A Harvard Law graduate who holds a Jack and Jill of America membership, Benjamin focuses her skills on business succession plans and tax controversies.
• Erica Lai (Northrop Grumman) Former President of the APABA-DC, the most important Asian American and Pacific Islander bar affiliation within the nation’s capital, manages a variety of litigation issues for Northrop Grumman.
• Lauren Champaign (Foley & Lardner LLP) as senior counsel within the nation’s capital, Champaign focuses on client regulation and sophisticated litigation, garnering a number of accolades, together with the Top 100 Black Lawyers and American Lawyer Young Lawyer of the Year finalist.
CCWC is a corporation for Fortune 1000 feminine attorneys of coloration, led by Founder, President and CEO Laurie N. Robinson Haden. CCWC was based to advertise development and profession success for girls attorneys of coloration, in addition to to advocate for all points of world range within the authorized office and career. In the previous 18 years, CCWC has grown from a gaggle of ten to five,000 members worldwide all dedicated to, “being the change [we] wish to see in the world” by growing initiatives to enhance schooling and employment choices for numerous people within the authorized career.
More than 1,500 attorneys will take part on this yr’s convention, which shall be in-person in Atlanta on the Hyatt Regency and digital. The in-person occasion is bought out; nonetheless, tickets should be bought for the dwell stream at www.ccwomenofcolor.org.
For extra data, contact: Laurie N. Robinson Haden – Founder, President, and CEO, Corporate Counsel Women of Color Email: [email protected] Telephone: (646) 483-8041 or go online to http://www.ccwomenofcolor.org
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