About Us
Women's Leadership Edge
Women’s Leadership Edge is a membership program for orgs that strive to level the playing field by addressing the structures that contribute to bias. Programming includes leadership training, professional skill building, and action-oriented conversations around race, gender and first-generation professionals in the workplace.
Members receive org-wide access to training and resources that are useful tools not only for members of underrepresented groups but also for sponsors, mentors, professional development directors and org leaders looking for sustained support as they reshape systems and culture at the organizational level for long term success.
OUR TEAM
Joan C. Williams
Described as having “something approaching rock star status” in her field by The New York Times Magazine, Joan C. Williams is a scholar of social inequality and a prominent public intellectual. Williams is the author of 12 books and 116 academic articles in law, sociology, psychology, medical and management journals. She is the 11th most cited legal scholar both in critical theory and employment law. She is a Sullivan Professor and the Founding Director of the Equality Action Center at UC Law San Francisco, former Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law.
She has three TED/TEDx talks, including one with over 1.3 million views. Her 2016 essay on why Trump attracted so many non-college voters went viral, with over 3.7 million reads, becoming the most-read article in the 90-year history of Harvard Business Review. She is widely known for “bias interrupters,”—an evidence-based metrics-driven approach to eradicating implicit bias introduced in the Harvard Business Review in 2014. The website biasinterrupters.org with open-sourced toolkits for individuals and organizations has been accessed over 500,000 times. She was profiled in Financial Times and has published on class dynamics in American politics in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Politico, The Hill, the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.
Jamie Dolkas
Jamie Dolkas (she/her) is Equality Action Center’s SVP of Strategy and Research and an Adjunct Law Professor at UC College of the Law, San Francisco. Jamie is an attorney specializing in employment and civil rights law, with a focus on sex discrimination in employment and education. She leads Equality Action Center’s women’s leadership initiatives, including Hastings Leadership Academy for Women and Women’s Leadership Edge. She also teaches a Leadership for Lawyers course at UC Law SF with Professor Joan Williams, a professional skills course that gives law students tools for career success.
Chelsey Crowley
Program Manager
Henrique Ferreira Menezes
Program Associate
Ryan Malek-Maple
Program Associate