ABOUT US
Mission
We empower our clients to cultivate environments where every individual is able to thrive. We are dedicated to fostering generative organizational climate through innovative consulting solutions that emphasize cultural proficiency and healthy organizational cultural practices.
Approach
Our approach to client service delivery is rooted in three primary tenets: personalized attention, flexibility, and collaboration. We partner closely with our clients, listening attentively to their concerns to co-create solutions that reflect their organizational values and objectives.
Collaborators
Demetria Frank, JD
DD Consulting President and Lead Collaborator, Demetria D. Frank, brings over twelve years of law teaching experience to her private consulting practice. Since 2016 she has served as a thought partner to nonprofits, government entities, K-12 schools, law firms, and higher education programs all over the country, focusing on the mid-south.
Under her leadership as the University of Memphis School of Law’s inaugural Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion, Memphis Law established an extended pipeline to lawyering beginning in high school that serves as a model for law schools. She initiated programs and initiatives enhancing the quality of life for historically underrepresented and excluded students. Her Project Mass Incarceration initiative connected law students to local activists to provide research and other legal support to criminal justice efforts in Memphis and throughout the state of Tennessee.
With success amongst K-12 educators, law firms, and municipal organizations, Demetria's cultural proficiency workshops encourage learners to embrace a lifelong process of learning. Her specialties are organizational cultural climate assessment, effective onboarding practices, cultural proficiency professional development, and developing bias reduction strategies in organizational decision making and processes.
Demetria earned her Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law serving as a member of the Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. Her research explores cultural proficiency, implicit bias in legal decision making, and prisoner rights. She is currently under contract with Carolina Academic Press developing a textbook, Culturally Proficient Lawyering, with coauthors Anastasia Boles, Darrell Jackson & Jamila Jefferson.
Darrell Jackson, PhD/JD
Collaborator Darrell D. Jackson, JD, PhD, is the Winston Howard Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming College of Law. Prior to this, he held positions as a scholar-in-residence and fellow at the University of Colorado Law School. He earned his JD from the George Mason University School of Law (GMUSL), where he was Editor-in-Chief and co-founded the GMUSL Civil Rights Law Journal. He earned his PhD in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice from the University of Colorado (Boulder) School of Education. Before entering academia, Jackson served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia and as an Assistant County Attorney in Fairfax County, Virginia.
In 2004, Dr. Jackson entered academia to serve as GMUSL’s inaugural Assistant Dean and Director of Diversity Services. During his tenure, he focused on establishing pipelines between undergraduate students from historically marginalized communities and the law school. As each cohort matriculated, his focus turned to creating support systems to enhance their likelihood of success in law school and beyond. Moreover, during his tenure, Dr. Jackson was instrumental in recruiting the most diverse class of students GMUSL had ever seen at the time.
Dr. Jackson’s two decades of working in and researching diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are evidenced through his research, writing, teaching, and community service. He has worked with medical groups, law groups, educational groups, and more to enhance their DEI awareness. He has presented his work internationally and remains committed to addressing issues of social justice and equity. He is the author of Black Men in Law School and is currently under contract with Carolina Academic Press developing a textbook, Culturally Proficient Lawyering, with coauthors Anastasia Boles, Demetria Frank & Jamila Jefferson.
Recent Public Highlights
Stealing Culture Makes a Mark at Aurora University
Afrofuturism and the Law Symposium at the University of Texas School of Law
Implicit Bias, Intersectionality, & Inclusion in the Law
DD Consulting Collaborator Darrell Jackson and Co-Director Nicole Crawford recently discussed the Stealing Culture project's research and advocacy with faculty, staff, and students from Aurora University.
Implicit Bias, Intersectionality, & Inclusion in the Law
Afrofuturism and the Law Symposium at the University of Texas School of Law
Implicit Bias, Intersectionality, & Inclusion in the Law
For Women's History Month, DD Consulting joined the Association for Women Attorneys, Reagan Fondren (First Assistant US Attorney) and moderator-president Ashley Moore for a CLE discussion about the biases women face in legal practice.
Afrofuturism and the Law Symposium at the University of Texas School of Law
Afrofuturism and the Law Symposium at the University of Texas School of Law
Afrofuturism and the Law Symposium at the University of Texas School of Law
Demetria spoke on Afrofuturism and the Law in Education at a symposium hosted by the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society at University of Texas School of Law.
2024 AALS Annual Meeting, "Defending Democracy" in Washington, D.C.
Cultural Proficiency with Memphis Law Alternative Spring Break Students
Afrofuturism and the Law Symposium at the University of Texas School of Law
DD Consulting & Culturally Proficient Lawyering Coauthors presented the Cultural Proficiency Lawyering framework at the 2024 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
Cultural Proficiency with Memphis Law Alternative Spring Break Students
Cultural Proficiency with Memphis Law Alternative Spring Break Students
Cultural Proficiency with Memphis Law Alternative Spring Break Students
Demetria recently spoke with Memphis Law's 2024 ASB class about learning the client's world without judgment.
33rd Annual John Dice Wellness Seminar at the Lichterman Center
Cultural Proficiency with Memphis Law Alternative Spring Break Students
Cultural Proficiency with Memphis Law Alternative Spring Break Students
DD Consulting spoke with members of the Memphis Bar Association about the new generation of attorneys, workplace needs, and setting expectations along with Attorney David Garrett and Judge Steve Hornsby.