Join CommonBondz and Karen Spencer Kelly, an attorney focusing on diversity and inclusion, for a conversation about interpersonal racism. The event will be limited to 50 participants.
More about Karen Spencer Kelly
Karen Spencer Kelly has been an attorney for over thirty years. Her current work focuses on diversity and inclusion auditing, conflict investigation and resolution, and conducting training in diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias and belonging.
Kelly is the founder and principal of KESK Consulting, LLC which specializes in:
helping organizations manage issues involving diversity in a variety of areas
providing diversity auditing services
counseling and advising private clients with diversity concerns in critical situations
producing continuing legal education courses in diversity
providing “Diversity and Inclusion 3.0” training for non-profit, government and corporate clients.
Kelly created the Diversity and Inclusion 3.0 Initiative to educate organizations and their employees about using diversity to create superior products and services as well as improving the work culture and environment.
Prior to her current practice, the scope of her work included practicing in the areas of civil litigation (trial and appellate); government affairs and municipal finance; serving as Chief Counsel to the Treasurer of Pennsylvania (overseeing the legal affairs of the Treasury Department and its 400+ employees); drafting legal opinions for state and local government agencies; and advising institutions, labor unions, universities, hospitals and political candidates on a variety of exigent issues. Kelly was also outside counsel to several privately held companies, advising on all aspects of their businesses. She also served as an independent investigator of discrimination claims.
Kelly earned her BA, cum laude, from Harvard College. She received her Juris Doctorate from the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.
Kelly has served on numerous non-profit boards. Inter alia, she was a Radcliffe Trustee, a member of the Chestnut Hill College Board of Directors, chairwoman of the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation and the first female African-American president of the world-wide Harvard Alumni Association.
She lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia.