Susan Freeman

November 24, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Lawyer, Legal, Team Building, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Sonia Zeledon

Susan Freeman

November 24, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Lawyer, Legal, Team Building, Women Leaders

Sonia Zeledon, Esq.

Sonia Zeledon is the Director, Associate General Counsel, Ethics, Head of Compliance and Data Privacy, for The Hershey Company. Previously, she held various positions at Nokia Corporations and worked at several Amlaw 10 law firms.

Ms. Zeledon serves on The Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Executive Committee as General Counsel. She is a frequent speaker on compliance and privacy, including the biases in technologies such as AI. She earned a B.A. in Economics and Math from Wellesley College; she also holds a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law.

Connect with Sonia

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonia-zeledon-she-her-3b39512/

Susan Freeman

November 22, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Legal Marketing, Thought Leadership

Wonder Woman in Business, Charisse Curiel

Susan Freeman

November 22, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Legal Marketing, Thought Leadership

Charisse Curiel, EMBA is a mom of two boys, a wife, and a marketing professional with nearly 20 years’ experience spanning several industries.

Currently, Charisse is the Digital Marketing Manager for Leopard Solutions, a woman owned law firm intelligence and attorney data company serving the legal industry. Leopard Solutions’ is the largest and most accurate law firm data platform with actionable intelligence and insights on over 4,200 law firms worldwide and 7,000 US corporate legal departments. One of the company’s latest product release is the Leopard Law Firm Index and the inclusion of a diversity tool incorporated into two legacy products, The Leopard List and Firmscape, also coming soon to Leopard In House. The Leopard diversity tool helps legal recruiters fill their talent pipeline with more women and attorneys of color; it also allows for corporate counsel and law firm management to keep an informed eye on diversity. Charisse joined Leopard Solutions in March 2018, managing all digital assets and creating almost all of the content for the company.

Prior to joining Leopard Solutions, Charisse was an account manager in luxury goods for nearly 15 years, as well as, the co-owner and marketer of a family-owned wine bar in Brooklyn. That experience further taught her to connect with people on both a personal and digital level creating a following of neighbors and community leaders that still attribute the rise of East Bedford Stuyvesant to the work she and her family put into creating a new business in a long forgotten area of Bedford Stuyvesant.

Connect with Charisse

Charisse Curiel, EMBA
Marketing Manager

212.430.8536
charisse@leopardsolutions.com

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Susan Freeman

November 10, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Lawyer, Legal, Wellness, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Joy Lyu Monahan, Esq.

Susan Freeman

November 10, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Lawyer, Legal, Wellness, Women Leaders

Joy Monahan.jpg — Joy Lyu Monahan, Esq.

AbbVie

Joy Lyu Monahan joined AbbVie in June 2020 as Associate Director, Legal Diversity and Outside Counsel Programs.

With her professional background in government, law firms, and nonprofits, Joy provides a unique combination of experience in philanthropy, private business, nonprofits, government, finance, law and other fields to this newly-created position.

Joy has been a frequent volunteer speaker on diversity and inclusion on organized industry panels and in informal settings and published author of several articles regarding this subject since she entered the legal profession in 1997.

In April 2019, Louisiana State University appointed Joy to serve on its National Diversity Advisory Board with 24 national industry leaders to advise the President’s office and to advocate and foster diversity and inclusion throughout the LSU system.

Joy recently served as General Counsel and Director of Special Project for World Business Chicago, the public-private economic development arm for the city of Chicago for almost six years. Initially recruited to lead the formation of its Metro Chicago Exports initiative in July 2014, Joy remained at WBC in multiple roles to fundraise, raise awareness, and develop strategic initiatives and external partnerships to drive inclusive economic growth and job creation under WBC’s chairman, the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

Prior to joining WBC, Joy spent eight years in Chicago practicing law with Edwards Wildman Palmer and Kirkland and Ellis LLP. Joy and her family moved to Chicago in 2006, after Hurricane Katrina struck their home in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she first started her legal career as a judicial law clerk.

As an attorney, Joy has over two decades of experience counseling national and international clients in a wide variety of litigation, corporate restructuring and insolvency matters, and global and cross-border corporate transactions. Prior to her legal career, Joy served in various roles in the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Joy earned her J.D. from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, her Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University, and her B.A. from Georgetown University. Joy also attended the London School of Economics and earned a General Course Certificate in International Politics and Economics.

Connect with Joy:

JOY LYU MONAHAN

Associate Director, Legal Diversity and Outside Counsel Programs

Legal Operations & DEI

1 North Waukegan Road, AP34

North Chicago, IL 60064-1802

Office: 847-932-7900

Cell: 224-361-1314

Email: joy.monahan@abbvie.com

Instagram: @joylyumon

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joylyumon

Susan Freeman

October 26, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Equity, Keynote Speaker, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Mita Mallick

Susan Freeman

October 26, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Equity, Keynote Speaker, Women Leaders

Mita Mallick

Head of Inclusion, Equity and Impact at Carta

Mita Mallick is a corporate change-maker with a track record of transforming businesses and cultures. Mita is a passionate storyteller who believes in the power of diversity to spur creative strategic thinking which can ultimately transform brands.

She currently serves as the Head of Inclusion, Equity and Impact at Carta. Her writing on diversity, equity and inclusion issues have been published in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Fast Company, Cosmopolitan, Create and Cultivate and The Goor Men Project. She’s also a columnist for SWAAY and a contributor for Working Mother Media.

Mita has a BA from Columbia University and a MBA from Duke University. She lives in Jersey City, NJ with her husband and two children.

In her own words…

I am a passionate storyteller. As a kid, I loved watching commercials instead of actual tv shows. I loved going to the store with my mom, studying The Keebler Elves and Snap, Crackle, Pop from Rice Krispies on shelf. I loved watching Fresh Prince of Bel Air because I saw a family that I could finally relate to. As a kid, I didn’t see many stories being told that included people who looked like me.

I have spent over 15 years as a storyteller. Leading iconic brands like AVEENO, AVON Color Cosmetics, Chapstick, Vaseline, Suave and Dove. Throughout my career, I have fought hard to ensure people like me are included. Ensuring black and brown people were represented in campaigns. Ensuring products we created were for all skin tones. Ensuring we were not reinforcing stereotypes. And a personal career high - signing Viola Davis to be our Vaseline Healing Project Ambassador.

I believe diversity of thought doesn’t happen without diversity of representation. When you have all those points of views, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds coming together around a table. Colliding, clashing, and collaborating- that’s when magic happens. That’s when we come up with that one break through innovative idea, campaign, innovation- to authentically and purposefully serve customers and communities.

Her thought leadership…

Why this workplace microaggression does more harm than you realize

https://www.fastcompany.com/90533252/why-this-workplace-microaggression-does-more-harm-than-you-realize

Do you know why your company needs a chief diversity officer?

https://hbr-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/hbr.org/amp/2020/09/do-you-know-why-your-company-needs-a-chief-diversity-officer

It’s time to rethink corporate bereavement policies

https://hbr.org/2020/10/its-time-to-rethink-corporate-bereavement-policies?ab=hero-subleft-2

I am a monthly contributor for Entrepreneur

https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/mita-mallick

Connect with Mita

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mita-mallick-2b165822/

Susan Freeman

October 16, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Rika Nakazawa

Susan Freeman

October 16, 2020

Diversity & Inclusion, Women Leaders

Rika Nakazawa

Rika Nakazawa is a senior executive, entrepreneur, investor in, and frequent public speaker on, technology-powered business transformation. She is also Vice President and Client Partner at Conduent, a $4B revenue global BPO provider to Fortune 100 companies, and is also the Founder and CEO of BoardSeatMeet, Inc. a Silicon Valley, social impact venture, focusing on diversifying the board room by empowering women to build and leverage social capital with modern technology. BoardSeatMeet's mission is to deliver the “High-Performance Board Room of Tomorrow.”

Trilingual in Japanese, German, and English, Rika grew up in Japan and moved to the US initially to attend Princeton University. Rika has since worked internationally over two decades in senior executive roles in strategy, business development, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies - NVIDIA, Sony, Accenture, American Express - and Silicon Valley startups. She is a technology industry veteran and has served on multiple venture boards in next-generation computing and artificial intelligence ecosystems.

Throughout her career, Rika has been an avid advocate for advancing diversity leadership in governance, technology, and business across industry verticals and global dimensions. And she is particularly passionate about deepening the intersection of human and digital paradigms through transformational innovation and the pursuit of purpose-driven collaboration.

Connect with Rika

Rika’s LinkedIn Profile

linkedin.com/in/rikanakazawa

Email

rika.nakazawa@gmail.com

Twitter

@rikamarien

Susan Freeman

October 6, 2020

Blogs, Diversity & Inclusion, Empathy, Women Leaders

Wonder Woman in Business, Carmella Glover

Susan Freeman

October 6, 2020

Blogs, Diversity & Inclusion, Empathy, Women Leaders

Carmella Glover

Diversity Action Alliance

Carmella Glover joined Page as the Director of DE&I in August of 2020 and has been Executive Director of the Diversity Action Alliance since July of 2019. In her role, she provides strategic direction for Page’s DE&I initiatives and oversees the operations, programs, finances, and strategic plan of the Diversity Action Alliance (DAA). The DAA is a cross-industry coalition led by communications trade organizations with a mission of accelerating progress in the achievement of meaningful and tangible results in diversity, equity and inclusion in the field.

Glover brings 10 years of corporate experience from L’Oréal USA, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson where she worked on and led manufacturing, supply chain, and communications teams. Before transitioning into diversity work, Glover was in operations, designing organizational strategy for and leading a team of supply chain managers at L’Oréal U.S.A., where she was responsible for overseeing the successful launch of luxury skin care products resulting in $100+ million in new sales annually. While at L’Oréal, Glover led a capital avoidance project in the fine fragrance manufacturing department, saving the organization $1.5 million in spend, improved the speed-to-market of skincare products and restructured the launch management department to improve efficiency and productivity of launch managers. Other operations in her purview included internal communications for intranet newsletters and blogposts.

In May of 2019, Glover was the recipient of the Logos Institute Rising Leader Award and a keynote speaker at the New York University School of Professional Studies May 2019 commencement. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in Public Relations from New York University. Glover is an active member of Newark’s Beta Alpha Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, wherein she exercises her passion for diversity initiatives and philanthropy. She resides in North Jersey with her husband and daughter.