[Erb-public-notice] 2024-ERB INVITE-DEI Committee Mentorship Program

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As part of its ongoing DEI work, ERB formed a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, including Board staff and practitioners as follows: Shirin Khosravi (ERB), Sabrina Dunsworth (ERB), Juril Stover (ERB), Lisa Umscheid (DOJ), Alex Wheatley (Fisher Phillips), Andi Pla (SEIU Local 503), Luke Kuzava (Tedesco Law Group), and Katelyn Oldham (Oldham Law Office). The Committee was formed last fall and has had three meetings thus far. The Committee is focused on how the agency can better serve our community, from a DEI perspective.



So far, the Committee has largely focused on law school outreach. There is a critical need to ensure that law students have access to opportunities to practice labor law - to both improve diversity of the labor bar and to address the arbitrator diversity "pipeline" issue. Accordingly, the Committee has proposed a mentorship program that would pair practitioners with current law students interested in pursuing labor law. The ERB would act as a liaison, pairing students and practitioners based on the student's specific interests (e.g. a student interested in becoming general counsel for a union would then be put in contact with in-house counsel at an Oregon union). The three Oregon law schools (Willamette Law School, University of Oregon Law School, and Lewis and Clark Law School) have been contacted about the mentorship program and are very excited to offer the opportunity to students.
If you are interested in participating in the mentorship program, please reach out to Board Member Shirin Khosravi (Shirin.khosravi at erb.oregon.gov<mailto:Shirin.khosravi at erb.oregon.gov>) with your name and contact information. Member Khosravi will follow up with you directly to discuss your availability. We ask that you please contact us by August 1, 2024, so that we have mentorship opportunities for students during the upcoming fall semester. We hope that you join fellow practitioners in this critical outreach to students that wish to be part of our legal community!



April Bathurst
Board Secretary
Assistant to Business Operations Manager
Rules Coordinator
Oregon Employment Relations Board
503-378-3807
April.Bathurst at erb.oregon.gov<mailto:April.Bathurst at erb.oregon.gov>

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