Terrific labor and employment law speakers include a King Hall alum

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Guest panelists and students participate in the  King Hall Labor and Employment Law Association's event.

 

Our students have amazing “culture” weeks of programming, with great speakers on great topics.  This week, the King Hall Labor and Employment Law Association (KHLELA) held a wonderful a panel on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Labor and Employment Law.  It was an amazing group of employment lawyers. 

Three guest panelists participated: Miranda LeKander, S pecial Counsel on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at the newly formed California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation;   William Tamayo, District Director of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, San Francisco District, and Jennifer Martinez, Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at Hanson Bridgett LLP.  

Bill Tamayo is a proud and dedicated UC Davis School of Law alumnus (Class of `78), whom I have had the privilege of knowing for many years.  Before going to the EEOC, Bill was the director of the Asian Law Caucus, a leading civil rights organization.  He has been a staunch defender of the civil rights of immigrants and farmworkers, who are too often forgotten even in the civil rights realm.  Bill has won many awards for his path-breaking civil rights work.