As we commemorate the 54th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, kickstarting the LGBT rights movement in the United States, ALANYC's DE&I Team will host a panel discussion. Our panelists Toni Jaeger-Fine, Ellie Krug, and Christian D. Rutherford will share their journeys, and discuss what allyship should look like and how the legal industry can create a supportive and inclusive environment for our colleagues.

Toni Jaeger-Fine

Toni Jaeger-Fine is principal of Jaeger-Fine Consulting, which provides services to attorneys, law firms, and other organizations on topics including talent management, development, and retention; diversity, equity, and inclusion; being supervised effectively; wellbeing; and a range of other attitudes and behaviors that lead to success. Jaeger-Fine is also Senior Counselor at Fordham Law School, at which she served as Assistant Dean for more than 16 years. Read More

Ellie Krug

In 2009, when she was a civil trial attorney in Cedar Rapids with 100+ trials, Ellen (Ellie) Krug transitioned from male to female; she later became one of the few attorneys nationally to try jury cases in separate genders. The author of Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change (2013), Ellie has trained on diversity and inclusion to court systems, law firms, Fortune 100 corporations, and colleges/universities on more than 1000 occasions. Her monthly e-newsletter, The Ripple, reaches 9000+ readers and can be found at www.elliekrug.com. Read More

Christian D. Rutherford
Christian Rutherford is an attorney with New York City boutique litigation law firm Holwell Shuster & Goldberg.  He is graduate of Brown University, has an M.P.A. in Nonprofit Management from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. Christian has served as a member of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee, taken a strong lead in diversity and inclusion efforts including founding the firm’s LGTQIA+ Affinity group, coordinating Hispanic Heritage, Black History and Pride Months and coordinating programming for the firm’s First-Generation Professionals Affinity Group. Read More 

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