Freada Kapor Klein 2717845 199253693 2008-03-19T02:41:04Z Mlaffs 5875630 [[User:NicoV/Wikipedia Cleaner/Documentation|WikiCleaner]] 0.71 - Repairing link to disambiguation page - [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|You can help!]] '''Freada Kapor Klein''', [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] (born [[1952]]) is a pioneer in the field of [[organizational development]] and [[human resources]] and [[Multiculturalism|diversity]] [[Consultant|consulting]], as co-founder of the first [[organization]] in the [[United States|U.S.]] to offer comprehensive services, training, and consultation on the topic of [[sexual harassment]] to both the private and public sectors in 1976 . Afterward, she became the first director of Employee Relations for [[Lotus Development Corporation]], before founding her own research, training, and consulting firm, Klein Associates, Inc., in 1987. Klein also frequently served as an expert witness on gender [[discrimination]] and [[sexual harassment]]. ==Career== Klein now devotes the majority of her time to work in the [[non-profit]] world. In 2001 she founded the [[Level Playing Field Institute]], a non-profit which promotes innovative approaches to [[Equity (law)|fairness]] in [[higher education]] and workplaces by removing barriers to full participation. While serving on the Executive Board of the College of Letters and Science at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], Klein co-founded the [[IDEAL Scholars Fund]] with three other board members in 2000. IDEAL invests in high-caliber, underrepresented students at Berkeley by providing resources and support to maximize their educational experiences and leadership opportunities during [[college]] and beyond. The fund was established in response to [[California]] [[Proposition 209]]. Klein’s for-profit and non-profit endeavors include the design and execution of several landmark studies, including: an annual survey of quality of worklife issues in [[Internet]] start-ups, a survey of [[Fortune 500]] manufacturing and service firms to determine the effectiveness of corporate efforts to address [[sexual harassment]], a survey of gender [[bias]] and [[sexual harassment]] experienced by [[Massachusetts]] [[physician]]s and medical students, survey projects for the [[United Nations]] and [[World Bank]] on various forms of [[harassment]], and a national representative survey of [[United States|U.S.]] employers and employees on their perceptions of fairness in the workplace. Klein is quoted extensively by the [[News media|media]]. She has been interviewed for numerous publications, including: ''[[Business Week]]'', the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', ''[[Forbes]]'', ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'', the ''[[Harvard Business Review]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', the ''[[The National Law Journal]]'', ''[[Newsweek]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', and ''[[The Washington Post]]''. [[Television]] appearances include: "[[Today (NBC program)|The Today Show]]," "[[NBC Nightly News]]," "[[Prime Time Live]]," "[[Nightline]]," "[[The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour]]," "[[20/20]]," "[[CBS This Morning]]," and "[[Good Morning America]]." Klein received her [[undergraduate]] [[Academic degree|degree]] in [[criminology]] from UC Berkeley in [[1974]], and her [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in social policy and research from the Heller School at [[Brandeis University]] in [[1984]], with a Social Science Research Council fellowship for the study of [[sexual harassment]] in [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]] employment. Klein and her husband, [[Mitchell Kapor]], live in [[San Francisco, California]]. ==References== <references/> {{Unreferenced|date=May 2007}} == External links == * [http://www.lpfi.org/ Level Playing Field Institute] * [http://www.lpfi.org/education/ideal_fund.shtml IDEAL Scholars Fund] {{DEFAULTSORT:Kapor Klein, Freada}} [[Category:1952 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni]] [[Category:Brandeis University alumni]]