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State of California
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States District Court, Northern District
United States District Court, Eastern District
United States District Court, Southern District
United States District Court, Central District
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2023, Oustanding Board Service - Oakland LGBTQ Community Center
2023, Northern California Super Lawyer – Rising Star Award
2022, The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association, 40 Best LGBTQ Lawyers Under 40 Award
2022, The National Black Lawyers, Top 40 Under 40 Award
2021, The National Black Lawyers, Top 40 Under 40 Award
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June 28, 2023 – Speaker, “Peace Love Revolution” Pride Month Celebration hosted by ChIPs: Advancing Women – Tech. Law. Policy. featuring other Speakers including Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Sabrina McKenna and Hilary Ware, Netflix Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Litigation & Regulatory Affairs
June 14, 2023 – Speaker, Navigating Employee Impact of Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation hosted by Edibility Consulting featuring other Speakers including Stratton Pollitzer (Co-Founder of Equality Florida), Nikki Gomez Whaley (Director DEI at Planned Parenthood Arizona).
April 7, 2023 – Speaker, Achieving Equal Pay, Perspectives from Academia, Litigation and the Boardroom hosted by the Orange County Women Lawyers Association featuring Lori Andrus Co-Founder of Andrus Anderson LLP and Professor Andrew Penner (UC Irvine – Sociology)
June 16, 2022 – Panelist, Pride Month: Leadership from an "L" Perspective, Enterprise Event presented by Northern California LGBTQ+ Employee Network, Bank of America Network - Merrill Lynch
March 31, 2022 – Panelist, “Going Beyond: How to Embed DE&I Best Practices into the Organizational DNA,” hosted by the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law (Equal Employment Opportunity) 2022 Midwinter Conference
October 13, 2021 – Co-Facilitator, “Pay Disparity Litigation Panel” hosted by the Mass Tort Made Perfect Conference featuring Lori Andrus Co-Founder of Andrus Anderson LLP
October 8, 2021 – Guest Speaker, The Women’s Advocate Podcast hosted by Sarah Nichols of Nichols Law, P.C.
July 28, 2021 – Guest Speaker, HeartBeat Radio – The Pulse of The People with Radio Host and Activist Cindi Bright
May 6, 2016 – Moderator, “Closing the Gender Wage Gap: Practical Implications for Employers Arising from California's Amended Fair Pay Act” hosted by the California Women Lawyers Conference
Meet the CEO Shauna Madison, Esq.
Shauna—a licensed attorney for nearly a decade—is the CEO and Founder of Rising Sun HR. Presently, Shauna utilizes her expertise in employment law and people management to advise California-based Small Businesses and Non-Profits on holistic, trauma-informed, legally compliant policies and practices.
Prior to Shauna’s current role as the Vice President of People, Culture and Equity and Compliance Counsel at a national LGBTQ Non-Profit, Shauna was Managing Partner at a queer-owned civil rights firm where she practiced as a full-time litigator, focused on employment discrimination and prisoner rights cases. Shauna also led the firm’s human resources department by recruiting, hiring, supervising, training, and managing employees from an employee-centered, trauma-informed lens.
While at the firm, Shauna also spoke on nationwide panels, discussing “Beyond Traditional DE&I” and employment law best practices, adding to her list of 30+ appearances as a guest speaker, panelist, and moderator. Additionally, since 2019, Shauna has provided pro bono legal, HR, and DE&I consultation to various 501(c)(3) organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Shauna has also interned at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and USF Law’s Employment Law Clinic as well as served as a judicial extern at the Merit Systems Protection Board.