Keynote Speaker
Anne M. Brafford, J.D., MAPP, PhD Candidate. After practicing law for 18 years, Anne left her job as an equity partner in employment litigation at Morgan Lewis to study with world-class experts in individual and workplace thriving. Anne is the founder of Aspire, an education and consulting firm for the legal profession. She is a co-founder and the Vice President of Programming for the Institute for Well-Being in Law and the Chair and founder of IWIL’s Well-Being Week in Law. She is a past Chair (2016-2020) and Vice Chair (2015-2016) of the ABA Law Practice Division’s Attorney Well-Being Committee. As part of her role with the ABA’s Presidential Working Group formed to investigate how legal employers can support healthy work environments (2017-2019), Anne authored the freely-available ABA Well-Being Toolkit for Lawyers and Legal Employers. Anne authored an ABA-published book titled Positive Professionals: Creating High-Performing Profitable Firms Through the Science of Engagement, which provides science-based guidance to law firm leaders for boosting work engagement for lawyers. Anne was the Editor-in-Chief and co-author of the 2017 report of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being, The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change.

Anne has earned a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania (2014) and is nearing completion of her doctoral work in positive organizational psychology at Claremont Graduate University.  Her dissertation focuses on the development of workplace inclusion. Anne’s research generally focuses on lawyer thriving and includes topics like inclusion, positive leadership, workplace well-being, work engagement, motivation, mental health, and retention and advancement of women lawyers. Anne can be reached at abrafford@aspire.legal.

Plenary One
The daughter of American civil rights activists, Doris “Wendy” Greene is a trailblazing U.S. anti-discrimination law scholar, teacher, and advocate who has devoted her professional life’s work to advancing racial, color, and gender equity in workplaces and beyond. The first tenured African American woman law professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and the Director of the Kline Law Center for Law, Policy, and Social Action, Professor Greene’s award-winning legal scholarship and public advocacy have generated civil rights protections for those who experience discrimination in various spheres. A visionary, she has coined two legal constructs, “grooming codes discrimination,” and “misperception discrimination,” which are recognized in civil rights discourse and have informed the enforcement stance of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), legislators, federal courts, administrative law judges as well as civil and human rights organizations.

Professor Greene is an internationally recognized civil rights scholar-activist who is the founder of the #FreeTheHair movement and a legal architect of the federal C.R.O.W.N. Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act) alongside parallel civil rights legislation on municipal and state levels throughout the United States. Indeed, the definition of race Greene first proposed in 2008 in her publication, Title VII: What’s Hair and Other Race-Based Characteristics Got to Do with It?, is now being adopted in these historic pieces of legislation and cited by U.S. federal courts as a viable definition of race when enforcing federal civil rights laws. She also serves as a legal expert and consultant for seminal U.S. civil rights cases challenging discrimination African descended workers’ and students’ experience when donning natural hair styles (like locs, braids, and twists) as racial discrimination. To date, Professor Greene’s global activism combating “grooming codes discrimination” in workplaces and other spaces has shaped every key legal reform in the United States that declares discrimination African descendants (and others) systematically experience on the basis of their natural hairstyles is racial discrimination.

Celebrated by Teen Vogue, Now This News, BBC News, The Association of American Law Schools, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, World Afro Day, and The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute among other organizations for her impactful scholarly activism, Professor Greene frequently provides legal commentary to media outlets such as The Washington Post, PBS News, BBC News, NBC News, and the New York Times. She, too, is a highly sought-after speaker and consultant, having traveled and delivered hundreds of lectures throughout the United States and across four continents in addition to advising private and non-profit organizations on myriad matters related to civil and human rights, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. What remains core to Professor Greene’s longstanding work as a civil rights law scholar, educator, expert, advocate, and consultant is an unwavering commitment to ensuring that our human rights to freely express our identities and to be treated with full and equal dignity are affirmed, respected, and protected.

A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Professor Greene is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana (B.A. cum laude with Honors in English and a double-minor in African American Studies and Spanish); Tulane University School of Law (J.D.); and The George Washington University School of Law (LL.M.).

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Please contact the LSBA if you have a disability, dietary restrictions or a food allergy which may require special accommodations at this conference. The LSBA is committed to ensuring full accessibility for all registrants. 

Lactation Room
A lactation room for breastfeeding individuals to express milk while attending conclave is available. You are responsible for requesting access to the space and following the guidelines for use.

Lactation Room Guidelines:
Attendee must request use of the room via email at diversity@lsba.org.

Please provide name, LSBRN, phone number, time room is needed and length of time that lactation room is needed.

Pumping equipment: Should you choose to leave any items in the room, know that these are not the responsibility of LSBA or host hotel.

Please keep the space neat and orderly. If there is a cleaning issue, please report the issue to LSBA staff at the registration desk.

If you have any additional comments or questions regarding lactation space or access, please email the Member Outreach and Diversity team at mailto:diversity@lsa.org.


Questions?
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The LSBA has reserved a block of rooms at the Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans at a discounted rate of $239.00 per night (excluding taxes and fees). You are urged to make reservations early, as there are only a limited number of rooms available at the discounted rate listed above. The LSBA room block is reserved for seminar attendees only.


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Hotel cancelation policy:
All reservations must be guaranteed with a credit card by July 10, 2023 and the credit card will be charged a deposit of one night's room and tax when reservations are made.  Any requests received after July 10, 2023 will be handled on a space and rate availability basis only.  Please note that if your plans change and you do not timely cancel your room reservation by August 5, 2023, you are responsible for the room charge.

Wi-Fi Access
Wireless access will be available in the conference area and main lobby. Please note, electrical outlets will be limited.