Keynotes

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Leslie Sanchez

Leslie Sanchez, former Bush presidential advisor and consultant on issues relating to women and Latinos, is a widely sought-after political analyst. She was part of CNN’s award-winning 2008 election coverage. A columnist and commentator, Sanchez is founder and CEO of Impacto Group LLC, a communications and market research firm, which specializes in defining social and economic trends affecting women and the emerging U.S. Hispanic community. For her work, Hispanic Business magazine named her one of the nation's “100 Most Influential Hispanics.”

In 1999 Sanchez served as deputy press secretary at the Republican National Committee where she was one of the principal architects of the Republicans’ first-ever multi-million dollar ad campaign aimed at Hispanic voters. Sanchez was appointed executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. She also served as a legislative aide to U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla (TX-23), where she worked on immigration and border security legislation as well as Appropriations for the Departments of Justice, State, Treasury and Transportation. As a political analyst, Sanchez has appeared on numerous television news shows and her analyses featured in many publications.

Jonathan A. Segal

Jonathan A. Segal is a partner at Duane Morris LLP in the Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group and is also the managing principal of the Duane Morris Institute. Jonathan’s practice focuses on preventive counseling, training and policy development, traditional labor and adversarial proceedings and government investigations.

Jonathan has served as a consultant to the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C., providing training on employment issues to federal judges around the country and is also a frequently-featured speaker at national, state and local human resource, business and legal conferences, consistently ranking among the top-rated speakers.

A member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, Jonathan provides legal counsel to public and private, secular and sectarian, colleges and universities, and has published more than 150 articles about employment issues. A contributing editor to HRMagazine, he has published more than 100 articles for the magazine and is a frequent contributor to The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel.