**Freada Kapor Klein**, [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] (born 1952) is a pioneer in the field of [[organizational development]] and [[human resources]] and [[Multiculturalism|diversity]] [[Consultant|consulting]], as co-founder of the first [[organization]] in the [[United States|U.S.]] to offer comprehensive services, training, and consultation on the topic of [[sexual harassment]] to both the private and public sectors in 1976.  Afterward, she became the first director of Employee Relations for [[Lotus Software|Lotus Development Corporation]], before founding her own research, training, and consulting firm, Klein Associates, Inc., in 1987. Klein also frequently served as an expert witness on gender [[discrimination]] and [[sexual harassment]].<ref name="View">[http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=view_from_the_bay/women_entrepreneurs&id=5898532 "Handling back to work hurdles" - The View from the Bay]</ref>

====== Career ======

Klein now devotes the majority of her time to work in the [[non-profit]] world.  In 2001  she founded the [[Level Playing Field Institute]], a non-profit which promotes innovative approaches to [[Equity (law)|fairness]] in [[higher education]] and workplaces by removing barriers to full participation.<ref name="Green">[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/garden/11green.html?src=me "How Green Is My Mansion?" - New York Times]</ref><ref name="View"></ref> While serving on the Executive Board of the College of Letters and Science at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], Klein co-founded the [[IDEAL Scholars Fund]] with three other board members in 2000.  IDEAL invests in high-caliber, underrepresented students at Berkeley by providing resources and support to maximize their educational experiences and leadership opportunities during [[college]] and beyond.  The fund was established in response to [[California]] [[Proposition 209]]. 

Klein’s for-profit and non-profit endeavors include the design and execution of several landmark studies, including: an annual survey of quality of worklife issues in [[Internet]] start-ups, a survey of [[Fortune 500]] manufacturing and service firms to determine the effectiveness of corporate efforts to address [[sexual harassment]], a survey of gender [[bias]] and [[sexual harassment]] experienced by [[Massachusetts]] [[physician]]s and medical students, survey projects for the [[United Nations]] and [[World Bank]] on various forms of [[harassment]], and a national representative survey of [[United States|U.S.]] employers and employees on their perceptions of fairness in the workplace.<ref name="View"></ref>

Klein is quoted extensively by the [[News media|media]].  She has been interviewed for numerous publications, including:  ''[[Business Week]]'', the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', ''[[Forbes]]'', ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'', the ''[[Harvard Business Review]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', the ''[[The National Law Journal]]'', ''[[Newsweek]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', and ''[[The Washington Post]]''.  [[Television]] appearances include:  "[[Today (NBC program)|The Today Show]]," "[[NBC Nightly News]]," "[[Prime Time Live]]," "[[Nightline (US news program)|Nightline]]," "[[The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour]]," "[[20/20]]," "[[CBS This Morning]]," and "[[Good Morning America]]."  

Klein received her [[undergraduate]] [[Academic degree|degree]] in [[criminology]] from UC Berkeley in 1974, and her [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in social policy and research from the Heller School at [[Brandeis University]] in 1984, with a Social Science Research Council fellowship for the study of [[sexual harassment]] in [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]] employment. 

Klein and her husband, [[Mitch Kapor|Mitchell Kapor]], live in [[San Francisco, California]].<ref name="Green"></ref>

====== References ======
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====== External links ======
  * [http://www.lpfi.org/ Level Playing Field Institute]
  * [http://www.lpfi.org/education/ideal_fund.shtml IDEAL Scholars Fund]