Interfacet provides equality and diversity training
programs and products to help organizations avoid costly litigation
associated with sexual harassment, race and age discrimination
and other related issues. In our diverse and litigious world,
more and more employers recognize the need to address cultural,
religious, racial, gender, and other differences at the workplace.
Failure to understand and resolve potential problems may result
in expensive, resource-intensive and moral-debilitating litigation.
Interfacet provides low-cost, effective measures to protect you
and your employees.
Deborah Volberg Pagnotta is the President of
Interfacet. She is a lawyer whose broad set of skills and unusual
combination of work experiences are uniquely suited to the nexus
of culture, gender dynamics and law that is the heart of Interfacet's
work. Ms. Pagnotta is a well-recognized trainer, fact-finder and
mediator, who began training groups on sexual harassment in 1988,
shortly after the Supreme Court first recognized sexual harassment
as a form of sex discrimination. Since then, she has provided
hundreds of trainings on sexual harassment, diversity and many
other employment issues to myriad organizations, including fire
and police departments and other law enforcement personnel, municipalities,
high schools, universities and law schools, health-care practitioners,
lawyers, insurance carriers, and not-for-profits. She has conducted
numerous neutral fact-finding investigations for organizations
as varied as major state agencies, the fashion industry and the
electronics trade. A skilled mediator, she has successfully mediated
many employment disputes, including complex, multi-party controversies.
She has been published extensively on employment issues in legal
and industry media.
Ms. Pagnotta was the employment practices partner in Kirkpatrick & Silverberg LLP, a top-rated New York law firm through 2000. Prior to entering the private sector, Ms. Pagnotta served as Director of the Westchester Regional Office of the New York State Department of Law, where she supervised a highly successful mediation program, resolving thousands of disputes yearly; subsequently, she also served as Director of Legal Affairs for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, managing a large staff of lawyers, paralegals and support personnel. Her work included supervising the negotiated rule-makings for pesticide and dry-cleaner regulations.
Ms. Pagnotta grew up in West Africa and Europe, and continues to travel extensively throughout the world. A 1977 graduate of Brandeis University, where she studied anthropology and linguistics, Ms. Pagnotta received her law degree from Hastings College of the Law, University of California in 1981.
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