Our Diversity Brochure

Education is an essential element of enhancing diversity at all levels of the Firm. Since 2003, Dickstein Shapiro has hosted a series of presentations that feature high-profile community and business leaders who talk about their experiences and address provocative diversity issues.

Diversity speakers have included:

• Dr. Benjamin Hooks, former Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People;
• Debra Lee, President and Chief Operating Officer of Black Entertainment Television;
• The Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke, Dean of Howard University School of Law and former Mayor of Baltimore;
• Hilary Rosen, gay rights advocate and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Recording Industry Association of America;
• Congressman Barney Frank, the first openly gay member of Congress;
• Sarita Brown, President of Excelencia in Education and former Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans;
• A’Lelia Bundles, author of the best-selling biography about her great-great-grandmother, titled On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker;
• José Bahamonde-Gonzalez, Associate Dean of the University of Maryland Law School, Vice President of the National Association for Law Placement, and Chair of the NALP Leadership/Membership Diversity Taskforce;
• Alberto Gonzalez-Pita, Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of Tyson Foods;
• Keith Watters, civil rights attorney and former President of the National Bar Association;
• Drucilla Ramey, Executive Director of the National Association of Women Judges; and
• Sgt. Brett Parsons, DC Metropolitan Police Gay and Lesbian Task Force;
•  Hayley Gorenberg, Deputy Legal Director at Lambda Legal;
• Lorrie L. Jean, CEO of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center;
• Aaron Tax, Service Members Legal Defense Network;
• Emily Hecht, Service Members Legal Defense Network;
• Julian Bond, Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)