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Navigating the New EEOC and DOJ Guidance on DEI Compliance in the Workplace
Original Program Date :
Jun 06, 2025 (MST-Arizona)
On March 19, 2025, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) and Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released a joint one-page document titled “What To Do If You Experience Discrimination Related to DEI at Work.” Additionally, the EEOC released a question-and-answer document about DEI-related discrimination in the workplace. This CLE will provide an overview of the recent EEOC and DOJ guidance and explore the related DEI Executive Orders. Equally as important, this session will address the questions that remain unanswered in the current DEI landscape, as well as provide practical takeaways for attendees.
Presenter:
Taylor Secemski, Esq., Lubin, Enoch & Bustamante, P.C.
Program Co-chairs:
Syreeta A. Tyrell, Audrey Chastain, Alden A. Thomas
Alden A Thomas
Alden is a shareholder at Jaburg Wilk and chairs the firm’s Employment and Education Law Departments. She assists employees and employers with wage and hour disputes, harassment and discrimination claims, restrictive covenant disputes, whistleblower claims, and federal and state compliance issues. In her education practice, she assists students and educators with residency, tuition, disability accommodation, discrimination and retaliation, disciplinary matters, and tenure and promotion disputes. Alden has substantial experience representing clients in state and federal court, private arbitration, mediation, and in administrative proceedings. Her wide array of experience affords her unique insight into how to best protect her clients’ interests. Alden has been recognized as a Southwest Super Lawyer Rising Star, Best Lawyers One to Watch, and Phoenix Magazine Top Attorney. Before entering private practice, she clerked for the Honorable Patricia Orozco (Ret.) at the Arizona Court of Appeals.
Audrey Elaine Chastain, Associate, Snell & Wilmer LLP
is a labor and employment associate with Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P. She received her B.S. in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science and her B.S.H.S. in Physiology in 2014 from the University of Arizona and received her law degree from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in 2017. In addition to co-chairing the State Bar Labor & Employment Section Tucson Lunch CLE Committee, Audrey serves on the Executive Committee for the Tucson Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and is a member of the Tucson Metro Chamber's Military Affairs Committee.
