Jamie Dolkas

Bio

Jamie Dolkas is the Equality Action Center’s SVP of Strategy and Research and an Adjunct Law Professor at the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco. Jamie is an attorney with a background in employment law. Jamie leads all aspects of Equality Action Center’s programs and strategy relating to eliminating bias, improving diversity and inclusion, and developing programs advancing women, BIPOC, and first-generation professionals in the workplace.

She helped develop and now leads Bias Interrupters – an evidence-based metrics-driven approach to eradicating implicit bias introduced in the Harvard Business Review in 2014. The Bias Interrupters open-access toolkits for individuals and organizations have been accessed over 500,000 times. Jamie works closely with organizations to understand goals and challenges, and develop a strategic plan for high-impact research partnerships, trainings, and interventions. She and her team have done extensive work for 60+ companies on issues related to leadership and DEI.

Jamie leads the highly acclaimed Leadership Academy for Women Partners— which has been called “life-changing”— Women’s Leadership Edge, a corporate membership program that translates social science into actionable roadmaps, and the Partner Accelerator Program (launching in 2025) that empowers women to successfully navigate promotion to partner and have momentum to succeed when they get there.

She teaches Leadership for Lawyers at UC Law SF, a professional skills course that gives law students tools for career success.

Jamie served as an academic research advisor for a working group assessing evidence-based best practices for advancing women in frontline retail (led by FSG). She is currently serving on a task force dedicated to developing tools enabling companies to leverage existing HR management programs to readily access key diversity and bias related analytics.

Jamie has written several publications, including Data-Driven Diversity – To achieve your inclusion goals, use a metrics-based approach (HBR Magazine March-April 2022), Expecting A Baby, Not A Lay-Off: Why Federal Law Should Require the Reasonable Accommodation of Pregnant Workers (ERA 2012), and a chapter in the anthology, The Opt Out Revolution Revisited (WorkLife Law 2012), which she co-authored with Joan Williams. Jamie graduated with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and cum laude from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She also completed the Women’s Policy Institute, a year-long legislative advocacy training program for women leaders.