Tia Kemokai
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Attorney/Advisor
Tia Kemokai is the owner of Tiangay Kemokai Law, P.C. Ms. Kemokai's current practice areas include Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training and restorative remediation, complex civil litigation, administrative law, and appellate advocacy. She is also a Lecturer at California State University, Sacramento, where she teaches criminal procedure.
Ms. Kemokai was formerly the Senior Program Manager at the Human Rights Fair Housing Commission. During her tenure, she investigated housing discrimination claims, drafted complaints, and designed fair housing testing. She was also responsible for drafting the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing. Upon graduating from law school, Ms. Kemokai clerked for the International Criminal Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia where she worked on the Radovan Karadzic trial, a high-profile genocide case. Based on her experience in international criminal law, she continues to apply her knowledge of restorative justice principles to various aspects of her practice. She believes that restorative justice principles that have been successfully applied in matters of peace and war and life and death can be utilized to achieve healthy, diverse communities.
Ms. Kemokai has combined her experience in state and federal discrimination jurisprudence and restorative justice principles to create a unique, premiere DEI training and certification program that will be digitally platformed for maximum access. To that end, she currently provides a wide array of DEI services with a focus on restorative remediation, which is a phrase she coined to address the adverse impact that discrimination has on workplace environments and communities writ large.
Ms. Kemokai is currently a Legal Specialist on the 2020 Corona Virus Domestic Violence team. The program utilizes restorative justice principles to promote healthy families and communities. Ms. Kemokai is a proud graduate of the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California.
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