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Profile
About Me
Rashida MacMurray-Abdullah, Esq. is a savvy and visionary c-suite leader with over two decades of successfully delivering professional services involving business controversies and crises to global Fortune 500 companies. Known for her ability to build trust, she is an agile communicator with the ability to lead change and ambiguity, engage key stakeholders, and empower diverse teams to create outstanding business impact to drive financial results. As engineer, attorney, and management consultant, she has counseled clients in solving their toughest business problems leveraging technology and other digital tools. Throughout her career, her practice focused on positioning her clients for success whether it is building high-performing teams, responding to government regulatory inquiries to conducting corporate investigations related to allegations of fraud and misappropriation of assets to implementing a tailored solution for monetizing the organization's intellectually property.
Rashida is also an outspoken advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Throughout her career, she has served in multiple leadership roles focused on focused on a culture of belonging as well as developed and implemented policies and programs designed to promote professionals from underrepresented groups in integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of the core business operations as well as across the enterprise. She has a proven track record of recruiting, developing, and promoting high-performing talent to foster a work environment where all leaders can thrive. Rashida thrives on bring people together and building relationships with her colleagues and clients fostering innovation and collaboration.
Rashida is active in her community. She currently serves as the Board Secretary for the Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, the Vice-Chair of the Ridley Scholarship Program, and the Chair for the National Bar Association Commercial Law Section.
Media Highlights
Named to Savoy Magazine's 2023 Most Influential Diversity & Inclusion Executives: https://savoynetwork.com/miedi2023/
Recent Speaking & Publications
Panelist, "Best Practices and Encouraging a Culture of Improving Diversity in the Legal Profession through Hiring and Retention," Virginia State Bar, Forum on Diversity Conference, April 2023
Education & Bar Admissions
Harvard Business Analytics Program
Certificate with Distinction
Rutgers University School of Law
Juris Doctor
University of Virginia
Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
Admitted To Practice Law:
State and federal courts in the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York; Registered Patent Attorney No. 50,399
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office; and
the Supreme Court of the United States
Other Certifications:
Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Non-Profit Board Service and Leadership
The Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, Board of Directors, Secretary
Click here for more information about CFSY: https://www.fairsentencingofyouth.org/
The National Bar Association - Commercial Law Section, Executive Committee Member, Chair
NBA Board of Governors, Section Representative
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The Ridley Scholarship Program, Vice Chair
Click here for more information about Ridley and ways to donate: https://aig.alumni.virginia.edu/ridley/