Laurie Robinson-Haden

Laurie Robinson-Haden (b. December 14, 1972, Washington, D.C.) is an American activist credited with creating the Corporate Counsel Women of Color and Corporate Counsel Men of Color, which provides a diversity and inclusion support network to professional attorneys of color. She is also the author of the Perspectives of Women of Color in Corporate Legal Departments which is a quantitive and qualitative research report focused on the current social and political issues impacting diversity in the workplace for professionals of color employed in the legal industry or legal departments of corporations. Haden served in the labor management division of the National Football League. 
== Corporate Counsel Women of Color ==
Robinson-Haden founded the Corporate Counsel Women of Color which is an American 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization with over 4,500 members, all women, who work primarily for Fortune 1000 corporations and Forbes 2000 legal departments. It's subsidiary, the Corporate Counsel Men of Color, is also the work of Robinson-Haden. She oversees the groups efforts in the United States, South Africa, Europe, Asia, South America, Dubai, and Russia. She focuses on diversity for lawyers, law students, and aspiring lawyers, including an Annual Career Strategies Conference, International Career Strategies Symposium, One-Day Career Strategies Conference for Law Firm Associates, My Life As a Lawyer for Law Students at Southern University Law Center|Southern University Law and the CCMC’s Career/Life Strategies Conference for professionals of color.
== Background ==
From 1998 to 2002 Haden was a labor and employment lawyer at Seyfarth Shaw|Seyfarth Shaw LLP and Epstein, Becker, and Green P.C. Haden was then hired as Assistant General Counsel and Director of Training and Development for CBS Broadcasting Inc. in 2002. She was then promoted to Vice President for CBS, then to Senior Vice President in 2009. In 2004, Haden founded the Corporate Counsel Women of Color (CCWC).
Haden also contributes to the CBS Corporation Diversity Blog. She has served on the board of directors of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.|NAACP LDF.
== Personal ==
Haden and her husband, David Patrick Haden, have one son, David Patrick Haden II. 
== Awards & Peer Review ==
* The Women's Venture Fund|Women's Venture Fund's Highest Leaf Award
* Los Angeles Black Women Lawyer's Power of One Award
* Chicago Black Women Lawyer's Diversity Visionary Award
* New York City Bar Association|New York City Bar Association Diversity Champion Award
* New York State Bar Association|New York State Bar Association Diversity Trailblazer Award
* Network Journal's "40 Under Forty" 
* PINK magazine|Pink magazine's "Top 15 Women in Business"
* M. Ashley Dickerson Award by the National Association of Women Lawyers
* "10 Up-And-Coming African-American Lawyers to Watch" by Diversity & The Bar Magazine
* Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis|Indiana University School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award
* Ron Brown Distinguished Leadership Award from the University of the District of Columbia
* National Bar Association's Pinnacle Award
 
Category:1972 births
Category:American activists
Category:People from Washington, D.C.