Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity
Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity
Program Manager
Brittany N. James serves as Program Manager for LCD. Joining the LCD Team in 2018, Brittany has been an integral part in the expansion of our membership and mission through her facilitation of programming aimed at diversifying Connecticut’s legal profession. For more than a decade, Brittany has dedicated her career to work that benefits the citizens of Connecticut through the legal, business and environmental sectors. With a Master’s Degree in Communication and Information Management, she’s helped facilitate the growth and development of organizations like LCD, as well companies such as EverSource Energy, Connecticut Water and Power, Yankee Gas, and others.
Founder & Principal, ExecMommyGroup (EMG)
Joelle A. Murchison combines her passion and expertise in education, equity & inclusion and communications in her work as the Founder & Principal of ExecMommyGroup LLC (EMG), an inclusion and leadership strategic consulting practice.
A career diversity and inclusion champion, Murchison, a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, also currently serves as the Executive Director of The Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity and as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Connecticut School of Business.
A native of Queens, and raised in Long Island, NY, Joelle takes her professional and leadership queues from her mother, a trailblazer in her own right, who was the first African American woman manager in the Social Security Administration in the 1970s. Joelle began her career in higher education followed by a stint in the non-profit sector; then transitioning to corporate America – first with United Technologies and then as the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer at Travelers Insurance. Murchison returned to higher education in 2016 as the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Connecticut where she served before launching EMG.
A recipient of numerous awards, Joelle serves as the chair of the board of RE-Center Race and Equity in Education and is a member of the board of directors and chair of the Human Capital and Diversity committee for College Possible, a national nonprofit focused on college access. In 2020, Joelle was elected to serve as a trustee of the Corporation of Brown University, the university’s decision-making body and currently serves as the chair of the Corporation’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion standing committee.
Additionally in her most demanding yet fulfilling role, Joelle is the mother of four children between the ages of 7 and 18 who are the wind beneath her wings. At her core, she is passionate about encouraging and inspiring all people to reach their highest potential and about creating space for open dialogue to enhance inclusion and understanding.
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Tyler I. Williams
George W. Crawford
Black Bar Association Representative
Associate
Berchem Moses, PC
Eboni S. Nelson
Dean and Professor of Law
University of Connecticut
School of Law
Andrea Lockenour
Partner
Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corporation
Sabrina Houlton
Executive Director,
Associate General Counsel
& Chief Privacy Officer
Raytheon Technologies
Dr. Bridgette Baldwin
Professor of Law
Western New England University
School of Law
Ginny Kim
LCD Treasurer
Assistant General Counsel,
Chief Compliance and
Diversity Officer
Office of Treasurer
Inez Diaz Galloza
LCD President Elect
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Attorney General
