Impactivize Advisory Board

Shari Dunn

Shari Dunn, JD, is the author of the book Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work (Harper Collins), a Publishers Weekly Top 10 pick in business and economics, Spring 2025. An accomplished journalist and consultant, former practicing attorney, news anchor and university professor,

Shari’s work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal and many other outlets. In her interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Shari challenges the false narrative that diversity equates to a lack of qualifications.
As the CEO and Principal of ITBOM, LLC, Shari specializes in institutional consulting, systemic equity and inclusion, change management, and workforce development.

Shari received her JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. In her groundbreaking book Qualified, Shari uncovers the impact of “Competency Checking,” a practice that unjustly scrutinizes Black people and other people of color, forcing them to repeatedly prove their worth, intelligence, and even their right to be in the workplace. Shari argues that competency checking is a key reason why Black people and other people of color are underrepresented in many industries and why there continues to be a revolving door of Black talent, even after the hiring surges of 2020. Qualified illustrates the scope of this issue, exploring how we got here and how, through both identification and correction, we can go forward into a future where all people are truly seen and valued for their talents and contributions.

Michael Moffitt

Michael Moffitt holds the Philip H. Knight Chair in Law at the University of Oregon, where he also teaches as a Faculty Fellow at the Clark Honors College. Michael previously served for six years as the Dean of the Law School at Oregon and for two years as the Roger D. Fisher Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.

A graduate of Marietta College and Harvard Law School, Michael has consulted on high-stakes negotiations for private and public sector clients in more than twenty countries. An award-winning teacher and scholar, he currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Marietta College (Ohio) and as Chair of the Board of Directors of Consensus Building Institute (Massachusetts).

By the final year of his deanship, the law school had the highest percentage of students of color in its history, the highest percentage of women in its history, and the highest percentage of students of color of any graduate school or college at the University of Oregon.