Practical Diversity: Love at Work ;-)

11:30 am - Networking and lunch

Noon - presentation and speaker

1 pm - Dismissal

Speaker: Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander

Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander (Dr. B-A), tenured associate professor of Employment Law &Legal Studies, emerita, at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, and founder of Practical Diversity LLC, is a cum laude graduate of the Howard University School of Law and a magna cum laude graduate of the Federal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia), both in Washington, DC. She is licensed to practice law in DC and six federal jurisdictions. By the time she retired after 33 years at UGA in February 2021, she had amassed over 60 awards and recognitions for teaching and service, including, upon her retirement, the University of Georgia creating the Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander Inclusive Community Award, a yearly monied award for faculty demonstrating a significant commitment to Diversity and Inclusion. Bennett-Alexander’s TED Talk on Practical Diversity has been viewed 200,000 times. With the $25,000 funds from the prestigious national Beckman Award for excellence in teaching, she established the Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander Building Bridges Scholarship for UGA students engaging in diversity work.

See her full introduction here:  Introduction for Dr. Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander

Chapter Meeting Location:

• Bobby Snipes Water Resource Center: Located at 780 Barber St, Athens, GA 30601
• Online (Zoom) and in person meeting - you must select your attendance location when registering. Zoom information will be provided to registrants on the Wednesday prior to the chapter meeting.  Please be encouraged to join us in person if possible.
• Lunch menu:  Em's Kitchen Lunch orders
• After registering, please click on the link under Events for Em's Kitchen Lunch orders to order and pay for your lunch online prior to noon on Tuesday before the chapter meeting.
• If you miss the deadline to order lunch, on the chapter date you may order online directly with Em's Kitchen at:  Em's Kitchen Online Order .  Please indicate that it should be ready at 11:00AM and write SHRM Chapter Meeting in the comments section.

• Lunches ordered in advance for cannot be refunded.

The purpose of the Athens Area Chapter of SHRM is to provide a forum for the professional development of our membership:

• To raise the standards of performance in all phases of human resource management.

• To provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among the membership relative to every phase of human resource management:

• Management Practices
  

• • Health; Safety and Security

  • Training and Development

  • Compensation and Benefits

  • Employee and Labor Relations

  • Selection and Placement

• To promote adherence to the Chapter’s Code of Professional Responsibility among our members.

• To provide a focus for legislative attention to state and national human resource management issues.

• To support the purposes of SHRM, which are to promote the use of sound and ethical human resource management practices in the profession.