CEO and Founder, Joy B. Tolliver, Esq., is a seasoned labor and employment law attorney with over 15 years of experience and a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging thought leader. Having earned a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University, Joy has dedicated her work to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and anti-racism within public and private institutions’ policies, procedures, and practices.
S.A.D.I.E. is named in honor of Joy’s great-grandmother, Sadie, who was born in 1918 in the deep South and experienced the harsh realities of Jim Crow laws, yet, as a nanny, she raised and nurtured generations of children of all nationalities and embodied inclusion, equity, and belonging in all that she did.