We believe in celebrating the values of diversity and inclusiveness. The success of our in-house speaker series is a testament to our conviction. The series was launched in 2005 and has since featured the following:

• Melvin White, President of the District of Columbia Bar and first openly gay African-American bar president in the nation;
• Sunil Mansukhani, Executive Director of the Access to Justice Commission;
• Paul M. Igasaki, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Equal Justice Works, and former Commissioner, Vice Chair, and acting Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission;
• Tom Perez, recently appointed Secretary, Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, and formerly the highest ranking Latino elected official in the state;
• Adam Ebbin, the first openly gay candidate elected to the Virginia House of Delegates;
• Debra Lee, President and CEO of Black Entertainment Television;
• Bill Lann Lee, the first Asian-American Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights;
• Eric Holder, Jr., the first African-America U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and the first African-American Deputy Attorney General of the United States;
• Judith Winston, former General Counsel and Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and former Executive Director of President Clinton’s Initiative on Race;
• Paul Wee, a theologian and Program Officer of the Institute on Religion and Peacemaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace;
• Lawrence Baca, one of the first American Indian graduates of Harvard Law School, first American Indian hired through the Department of Justice's Honors Law Program, and Chair of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession.