Introducing Ada Okafor

Ada Okafor serves as General Counsel and Chief Diversity Equity and Inclusion Officer for American Board of Surgery.

Ada is the first person of color to hold the position and title of General Counsel (GC) in the American Board of Surgery’s 85-year history. As GC, Ada she leads the organization’s legal, compliance, ethics and enterprise risk management function.She is also the first person to hold the position of Chief Diversity Equity and Inclusion Officer (CDEIO).

She is a dynamic individual who is passionate about DEI. She has contributed to a plethora of diversity efforts throughout her career. She believes it helps create an inclusive environment so that people can do their best work and have their individual skills and talents recognized, appreciated and utilized.

Ada’s background makes her uniquely suited for her dual roles at ABS. Born in Nigeria, she was raised in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States when she was a teenager. Because she moved so much, she had to be flexible, nimble, and able to adapt to new environments, new people, and new ways of life. These moves helped her develop a global perspective through which she saw, understood and interacted with the world and the people around her.

Ada has been involved with numerous conferences on increasing diversity in the legal profession and has received extensive training on implicit/unconscious bias, social justice, neurodiversity, health equity, disability, allyship, and micro-behaviors (microaggressions, microassaults, microinsults, microinvalidations), and the appropriate ways to validate and respond to those impacted by such words and actions.

As ABS’s inaugural CDEIO, Ada is excited to use the skill-sets that she has developed and honed over time to help drive ABS’ commitment to be a diverse, anti-racist, equitable and inclusive organization.

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