The Resilient Lawyer with Jeena Cho
Business:Careers
RL 92: Demetria Johnson — Diversity & Inclusion without Shame, Blame, or Attack
In this episode, I am excited to have Demetria Johnson on to talk about diversity and evolving the talent pool.
Demetria Johnson is a diversity professional with expertise in global and U.S. diversity and inclusion initiatives, women's initiatives, and talent strategy. As a pioneer in the legal community, she has served in numerous leadership roles with notable legal organizations such as The Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals, NALP, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity and Washington Area Legal Administrators Association. She is a frequent speaker at conferences focused on women's initiatives, mentoring, leadership, and professional development.
Topics Covered
How she found herself in this line of work and how she attributes her success to her natural people skills. She also talks on what lens she has to look through when it comes to diversity and inclusion with lawfirms. What is diversity tax/tokenism within law firms, and how this can be seen as covert racism or doing the bare minimum to seem inclusive is insensitive. She also offers strategies or tools that diverse attorney’s can do to “find their sea legs.” She touches on her perspective of the culture of Diversity & inclusion, and how well-being, and a sense of belonging stem from allowing others to speak without fear of shame or feeling like their voice matters less. What evolving the talent pool looks like and how to start having that conversation in a larger scale to redefine one of the least racially diverse professions in the nation.
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