B02 – Narrative Justice: Storytelling as a Means for Shaping DE&I Initiatives (2025CLC-B02)

Friday, June 13, 2025

10:15 AM to 12:15 PM

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DE&I Track

Presented by the DE&I Committee

About the Program

This program will feature stories of four legal professionals from underrepresented backgrounds. One critique of DE&I work is that it can be academic, in other words, disconnected from those it is intended to benefit. Storytelling is one way to rehumanize DE&I work and to direct initiatives based on needs anecdotally identified, rather than through academic or statistical means.

You Will Learn

About the importance of DE&I work amongst an emerging counter-narrative that DE&I work is no longer necessary
About issues for DE&I professionals to focus on or add to current initiatives

Who Should Attend

All legal professionals.

Credit

CT: 2.0 CLE Credits (Ethics)

Speakers

Beck Fineman1 Beck S. Fineman
Pullman & Comley LLC, Bridgeport

Kathy Flaherty1 Kathy Flaherty
Connecticut Legal Rights Project Inc., Middletown

Kimberly Jacobsen Kimberly A. Jacobsen
Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities, Hartford

Moderator

thompson_mallori1 Mallori D. Thompson
Robinson & Cole LLP, Hartford