Roundtable of LEGAL Diversity AssociationS (RODA) AND OBA PROGRAM | Original Program Date: November 23-24, 2021

The RODA - OBA Annual Diversity Conference returns by popular demand for its seventh year to provide critical insight into current issues affecting equity-seeking and racialized lawyers and their allies.

Gain practical strategies to help inspire you to challenge discrimination and inequity in your workplace and community.   

Our distinguished faculty will provide you with valuable tools to help identify, assess, and challenge discrimination and inequity, and how to take meaningful steps towards building a fairer, more just society.

Day 1: Using your legal skills as catalysts for action

Reimagine your legal skills and learn new strategies to help you evaluate, choose and shape your role as a legal professional who is committed to building an equitable society.  Engage with fellow professionals and lawyers and work through the complexities of competing interests and risks to your professional self when deciding what role you might play in challenging systemic discrimination and inequity.  

Day 2: Changemakers in action

Learn about how other lawyers and professionals have leveraged their legal skills to become changemakers against discrimination and inequity in their workplace or community. Gain valuable insights into their strategic approach and effective partnerships with legal organizations and other allies.  This is a unique opportunity to hear about the highs and lows of being a changemaker from the frontlines.

This not-to-be-missed event will help you grow to become an IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) changemaker in your legal practice. Connect with fellow IDEA professionals. Get inspired and empowered by their experiences and strategies!

ADDITIONAL PANEL PRESENTED IN FRENCH - 11:15 AM TO 12:15 PM - NOVEMBER 24

Comment utiliser votre formation juridique pour accélérer le changement de culture vers l’inclusion, la diversité, l’équité et l’accès. Comment pouvons-nous utiliser notre position sociale, notre éducation et notre formation pour influencer le changement systémique ? Comment pouvons-nous naviguer avec succès dans les canaux juridiques et de plaidoyer actuellement à notre disposition ? Écoutez les idées précieuses de nos présentateurs sur leur parcours pour devenir des acteurs du changement et sur la manière dont ils ont efficacement défendu les lois et pratiques discriminatoires et inéquitables dans les sphères politique, gouvernementale et juridique. Nos panelistes discuteront les sujets suivants : (a) : Conduire le changement à travers les canaux politiques et gouvernementaux (b) : Plaidoyer systémique devant les tribunaux et autres stratégies juridiques formelles.

FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKER

AGENDA

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