Daedra Staten ESQ.

Daedra Staten, Esq. is the founder and Chief Diversity Consultant at Staten Consulting Group (a.k.a. SCG Diversity Consulting). SCG provides its clients, which include businesses, non-profits, and educational institutions among others, with comprehensive diversity, anti-racism, and inclusion ("DAI") education, training, and programming. SCG’s projects vary in magnitude and depth depending on the client, but involve developing and moderating DAI panels, instructional and program design, mediation, conducting organizational audits of internal DAI structures and practices, implementing and advising on DAI policy, and developing diversity-focused recruitment and retention plans.

Prior to founding SCG, Daedra spent the better part of a decade at UCLA Law (her alma mater) as the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies, traveling the globe to recruit a diverse class of international lawyers dedicated to continuing their legal education in the States. In this role, she also worked to develop diversity and academic support programming for the law school.

Daedra graduated from UCLA Law in 2013 with a specialization in Critical Race Studies and a focus on International and Comparative Law. She earned a dual bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California in 2010 in International Relations Global Business (Marketing) and Philosophy (Ethics, Law & Value Theory). She is a member of the California State Bar.