Webinar: What You Need to Know Now About the Legal Landscape for Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs

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Join us as Colette Holt shares timely insight on the procurement landscape, legal battles and overall plight of MWDBE contracting opportunities. Learn more about recent challenges to DBE and supplier diversity programs across the country and hear recommendations on what practitioners, owners and agencies can do to address the rapidly shifting legal standards in their region.

Colette Holt represents public agencies and private firms on issues related to civil rights, public contracting and affirmative action. She has broad experience in conducting defensible disparity studies, expert witness consulting and testimony, drafting legislation and policies, designing programs, managing initiatives, defending affirmative action programs, and counseling private firms on compliance with diversity requirements. Ms. Holt serves as General Counsel to the American Contract Compliance Association and is an author and frequent media commentator on these issues.

Ms. Holt received her B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. She was a Law Clerk to the former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Prior to developing her own practice, she was associated with a large law firm, Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago and Chief Operating Officer of the Chicago Park District. She is a former Adjunct Professor at Loyola University School of Law and the John Marshall law School.