Kathleen Nalty has served as Executive Director of the Center for Legal Inclusiveness since its founding in October 2007. She co-authored CLI’s inclusiveness manual, oversees CLI’s Inclusiveness Network (law firms and departments implementing inclusiveness initiatives), and is an expert in diversity and inclusiveness in the legal profession. Ms. Nalty received her B.A. from the University of Denver and her J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School. Ms. Nalty started her legal career as a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane, Jr. (Denver, Colorado). In 1986, Ms. Nalty was selected to participate in the Attorney General’s Honors Program at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. She joined the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division and prosecuted cases involving hate crimes, police brutality, and slavery. After returning to Colorado, Ms. Nalty co-founded the Colorado Lawyers Committee’s Hate Violence Task Force. She was selected as “Individual of the Year” by the CLC in 1997 for her work as Co-Chair of the Task Force. From 2002-2007, she worked for the University of Denver Sturm College of Law as a Consultant in the Career Development Office where she specialized in assisting employers and students with diversity programs and initiatives. While at D.U., Ms. Nalty co-founded the annual Rocky Mountain Diversity Legal Career Fair. She also served as Co-Chair of the Diversity in the Legal Profession Committee of the Colorado and Denver Bar Associations, Co-Chair of the 2007 Rocky Mountain Legal Diversity Summit in Denver, and developed workshops for the State High School Diversity Conference. She has received several awards in Colorado: Sam Cary Bar Association’s “Diversity Leadership Award” (October 2008); Colorado Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s “Minoru Yasui Community Service Award” (April 2009); Colorado Women’s Bar Foundation’s “Raising the Bar” Award (September 2010); and the Colorado GLBT Bar Association’s “Ally” Award (September 2010), and the Colorado and Denver Bar Association’s Diversity Trailblazer Award (2011). Ms. Nalty has been invited to speak about diversity and inclusiveness at the ABA’s SOGI Commission Hearings in July 2009, the National Association for Law Placement’s annual convention in April 2010, the American Bar Association’s Convention in August 2010, Walmart’s SuperConference in September 2011, the Washington, DC ALA Annual Fall Forum, as well as several law firms and departments across the country.