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Aug 30, 2024 | 
profilemagazine.com | Natalie Kochanov |Andrew Evangelista
Sports are the core of Nike’s iconic brand. For Chief Tax Officer Emily Whittenburg, that focal point influences everything from her team’s bonding activities to her mindset as a leader. “I’m a player’s coach,” says Whittenburg of her leadership style.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Natalie Kochanov |Andrew Evangelista
Many entrepreneurs first consider striking out on their own upon recognizing an unmet client need. In the case of former corporate executive Lili Gil Valletta, the client in question was herself.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Billy Yost |Russ Klettke |Natalie Kochanov |Frannie Sprouls
Photos Daniel McGarrity (Mastroianni), Adriana Escalante (Lopez), Dawn Rodriguez (Gil Valletta), Jason Garcia (Toro), Cass Davis (VIDA), Laura Kaiser (Egli), Karen Vaisman (Silva), Andrés De Haro (Kannan), Tom Pich (Ramirez), Courtesy of NaturaLawn of America (Catron), Courtesy of Rodrigo Tajonar (Tajonar), Courtesy of Harris (Saenz), Siobhan Gauzur (Del Rio), Igor Khodzinskiy (Unanue), Muriel Santos (Romano), Reshni Aryamane (Esquivel), Ron Diamond (Thibodeaux), Haley Gasparine (Londoño),...
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Natalie Kochanov |Russ Klettke |Billy Yost |Zach Baliva
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Natalie Kochanov |Andrew Evangelista
These days, it’s hard to imagine Alvaro Toro in any field other than IT. Back when he was an undergraduate student at Cal Poly Pomona, however, Toro was an electrical engineering major with a job in accounting. “During that time, I had the opportunity to support an enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation in the accounting area,” Toro says.
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May 31, 2024 | 
modern-counsel.com | Natalie Kochanov |Andrew Evangelista
Riddhi Shah immigrated to the United States to live out a storybook romance; she married her now husband after years of friendship that began when the two were in preschool. The move’s implications for her legal career, on the other hand, were hardly fairytale material. “I had to restart my career because my five years of practice in India were pretty much discounted here,” says Shah, who specialized in securities and mergers and acquisitions at one of India’s largest law firms.
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May 31, 2024 | 
modern-counsel.com | Natalie Kochanov |Andrew Evangelista
When Jeff Nass started law school, he didn’t yet know how his interest in technology and data risk would fit into his legal career. Then, a classmate introduced him to Alon Israely and Brian Schrader of Business Intelligence Associates. “They were helping large companies organize themselves so that when complex litigation hit, they would know where the data that could be potentially responsive to that litigation was stored,” Nass explains.
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May 31, 2024 | 
modern-counsel.com | Natalie Kochanov |Andrew Evangelista
Judith Dever’s top piece of advice for law students is to take advantage of internship and externship opportunities, even if those opportunities fall outside their practice areas of interest. After all, as Dever learned in the early stages of her own career, those areas of interest can be a moving target. “I wanted to be a health law attorney when I graduated from law school,” Dever says. “I never knew that I would become a labor and employment lawyer.
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May 6, 2024 | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Natalie Kochanov |Andrew Evangelista
Ann Anaya may have left the practice of law behind when she entered the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) space in 2017, but she views her career transition as less a dramatic leap than a logical progression. “The reason I focused on a career in law was because law is the one profession where a fair and just outcome was the expectation,” says Anaya, a former public defender and state and federal prosecutor who later moved in-house to practice corporate law.
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May 5, 2024 | 
hispanicexecutive.com | Zach Baliva |Natalie Kochanov |Billy Yost
The legal field needs to reflect the growing Latino population in the US. Latinos are underrepresented in law (5% vs. 19% US population). Latinas face an even steeper climb (2.34% of lawyers). Progress is happening, but slowly (Latinos up from 4.5% of all law associates in 2022). While Hispanic and Latino students are entering law school (15.2%), they are not graduating at the same rate (12.7% JD degrees). Mentorship and support programs are crucial to address this gap.
