MoFo Program Emphasizes DEI Across Firm Mentoring
Law360
Law360
Natalie Kernisant spoke to Law360 about the launch of “MoFo Navigate,” a program that takes a holistic approach to professional growth with an eye toward greater equity and inclusion.
“[MoFo Navigate] provides us with opportunities to talk about mentoring across differences, and it starts to lay the groundwork for conversations about racial and gender diversity,” Natalie said. “It’s a powerful tool to start to sprinkle in traditional diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts that includes everyone at the firm.”
She added: “The major impetus for focusing on mentorship and sponsorship as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion at the firm is that we firmly believe that at the heart of diversity and inclusion efforts is connection and relationship building. Unconscious bias, whether we like it or not, affects our perceptions and interactions, and so to focus on removing those barriers and facilitating the development of these critical relationships is very important to us.”
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