Crowell & Moring's "Celebrating Diversity" Speaker Series

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, launched in 2005, is open to all attorneys and staff, and brings distinguished speakers to the firm to discuss and explore various aspects of diversity. Our guest speakers have included:

• 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, former Chair of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, and 2008 recipient of the Commission's "Spirit of Excellence" award;
• Adam Ebbin: the first openly gay candidate elected to the Virginia House of Delegates;
• Peter Edelman: a long-time social justice advocate and current professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center who has served in all three branches of government, including service as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services;
• Eric Holder, Jr.: the first African-American U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, the first African-American deputy attorney general of the United States, and the first African-American attorney general of the United States;
• 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;
• Bill Lann Lee: the first Asian-American assistant attorney general for Civil Rights;
• Sunil Mansukhani: executive director of the DC Access to Justice Commission;
• Debra Lee: president and CEO of Black Entertainment Television;
• Julian Stapleford: senior counsel at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and co-chair of the Wells Fargo Legal Group Diversity Council;
• Paul Wee: a theologian and program officer of the Institute on Religion and Peacemaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace;
• Melvin White: immediate past-president of the District of Columbia Bar and first openly gay African-American bar president in the nation;
• Judith Winston: former general dounsel and under secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, and former executive director of President Bill Clinton's Initiative on Race.