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Vice Chair & General Counsel, Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance, KPMG Tonya Robinson serves as KPMG LLP’s Vice Chair and General Counsel – Legal, Regulatory and Compliance. As a member of the Firm’s executive Management Committee, she reports to the Chairman/CEO and oversees the Office of General Counsel, Office of the Chief Ethics…

President, AFL-CIO Elizabeth H. (Liz) Shuler is president of the 60 unions and 12.5 million members of the AFL-CIO, and the first woman leader of America’s labor movement. A visionary leader and longtime trade unionist, Shuler believes the labor movement is the single most powerful vehicle for progress and that unions are…

Priya Aiyar is American Airlines’ Chief Legal Officer. She leads the airline’s Legal Affairs team and its legal strategies. This includes the company’s corporate governance, securities and corporate finance, commercial, litigation, competition and antitrust, compliance, privacy, environmental, labor and employment, and intellectual property legal issues and work. Priya joined American in 2019…

Partner, Morrison Foerster

Executive Vice President & General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Stacey Friedman is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for JPMorgan Chase & Co., and a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. She also serves as the Operating Committee Sponsor of the firm's Digital Assets Group and as the Executive Sponsor of…

Founder & CEO, Phenomenal

Senior Advisor to the Provost & Professor of Policy, Law & Women’s Studies, Brandeis University Anita Hill grew up on a farm in Oklahoma, the youngest of 13 children. She graduated from Oklahoma State University and received her J.D. from Yale Law School. Starting her career in Washington, D.C., Hill worked in…

President and CEO, Southern Poverty Law Center Margaret Huang, an advocate for human rights and racial justice for nearly three decades, is the President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC serves as a catalyst for racial justice in the U.S. South and beyond, working in partnership with communities…

Dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School.

Former CEO, Women’s Sports Foundation For over 30 years, Deborah Slaner Larkin has focused her efforts to promote civil rights, women’s leadership and gender equity throughout her hometown of Pelham as well as on the state and national levels. Ms. Larkin was instrumental in creating Title IX information at the National Women’s…

Professor of Law and Professor Alfred Slocum Scholar, Rutgers Law School David Lopez joined Rutgers Law School as Co-Dean in August 2018 and was the longest-serving General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Dean Lopez was twice nominated to the position by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the United…

Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, NYU School of Law Melissa Murray is a Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law and Faculty Director of the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network. Previously, Murray was the Alexander F. And May T. Morrison Professor…

Partner, WilmerHale, Vice Chair, Litigation/Controversy Department  Kimberly A. Parker's practice focuses on white-collar criminal matters, internal corporate investigations, and compliance counseling. Ms. Parker is vice chair of the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department, co-chair of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice, and co-leads the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Anti-Corruption Practice. Ms.…

Founder & President, Justice for Migrant Women Mónica Ramírez is an activist, author, civil rights attorney, social entrepreneur and speaker. She has been specifically engaged in direct service and advocacy on behalf of farmworkers, Latinas and immigrant women. Mónica employs a holistic, victim-centered approach to her work and she is an ardent…

Principal, Sherburne PLLC  Jane Sherburne is Principal of Sherburne PLLC, a legal consulting firm providing strategic advice in crisis environments and in connection with regulatory policy developments. Over the past 14 years, Ms. Sherburne has served as General Counsel to financial institutions (BNY Mellon, Wachovia and Citi Global Consumer Group), managing large…

Partner, Covington & Burling LLP Clara Jihye Shin is a partner at Covington & Burling LLP and co-chair of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group.  Clients call on Clara in late stages of litigation to take matters to trial or reorient the strategic direction of a case.  In the last few years,…

President, Lyft Kristin Sverchek is the President at Lyft, a public transportation network company operating in hundreds of cities across the United States and Canada. She holds a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from UC Law SF (formerly UC Hastings College of…

Vice Chair, Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer, Visa Kelly Mahon Tullier is vice chair, chief people and corporate affairs officer of Visa. Ms. Mahon Tullier serves as corporate secretary, and leads Visa’s people, communications, government engagement, inclusive impact & sustainability, transformation and corporate services functions, including real estate, aviation, security and…

Ms. Goss Graves, who has served in numerous roles at NWLC for more than a decade, has spent her career fighting to advance opportunities for women and girls. She has a distinguished track record working across a broad set of issues central to women’s lives, including income security, health and reproductive rights,…

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