With her “Practical Diversity” TED Talk having been viewed nearly 200,000 times, having had a faculty award created by the University of Georgia to honor her lifelong work for D&I there (the Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander Inclusive Community Award), and having received over 60 awards and recognitions for her work, including the prestigious $25,000 national Beckman teaching award, lawyer, emeritus law professor and legal textbook author, internationally recognized Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, is known for conducting unique, interactive, engaging, comprehensive, light, fun and deft, but tremendously impactful, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion presentations of all kinds, including keynotes, workshop, classes, presentations, panels and consultations. Grounded in law, but totally accessible for all levels, her broad and deep background gained from experience in the White House Domestic Council, DC Court of Appeals, Federal Labor Relations Authority’s Solicitor’s Office, US Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, US Department of Justice’s Criminal Appeals Division, and decades of teaching at a major university, conducting labor mediation and arbitration, co-authoring several legal textbooks including the discipline-establishing and discipline-leading Employment Law for Business (McGraw-Hill, Publishers) and conducting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, as well as Employment Law seminars including Sexual Harassment training, for thousands of attendees, both informs her presentations and gives them unparalleled depth and breadth.

Her practicaldiversity.com "Heart Work" page provides a one-stop, self-guided collection of resources to help anyone understand race issues in the US, why we are where we are and how to help make it better. Called heart work because that's what she believes it will take for individuals to create the change we want to see.