Coffee Chat: Black Voices Making An Impact
Join Dean Scott Taylor, Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, for a coffee chat with Kim M. Keenan, Esq (SFS ‘83) on Monday, February 28, at 2:00 p.m. Keenan joins JAMS as a Mediator, Arbitrator & Neutral Evaluator after an impressive career as a nationally known trial lawyer, mediator and in-house counsel, as well as a recognized leader among multicultural social justice organizations.
Ms. Keenan’s success in varied roles, including law firm litigator for 20-plus years and private mediator and general counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the oldest, largest, and most recognized grass roots civil rights organization in the world. She has extensive experience working with global brands from the Fortune 100 and has built long-standing senior-level relationships with private sector, academia, government and nonprofit leaders.
Ms. Keenan is a past president of the District of Columbia Bar and was the 62nd past president of the National Bar Association, the largest coalition of African American lawyers, judges, law professors and law students. She also serves as the first female co-chair of the Internet Innovation Alliance, a broad-based coalition of business and non-profit organizations working to ensure every American has access to broadband internet.