If you have a Job you need to hear what this Lawyer has to say

The Chris DeBlasio Podcast

If you have a Job you need to hear what this Lawyer has to say!

On this episode of C-Level, I speak with Chandra Davis, attorney and co-founding partner of ELS, The Employment Law Solution Firm.
- So, Chandra thank you so much for being on the episode. I'm excited about this episode because, one of the biggest things when an entrepreneur or somebody scales you're gonna need to hire people, right? And you are the expert in this field, and you're gonna give a whole background and everything on the right and wrong ways of doing it. But first, I'm very interested in people's story. So give me your background, where'd you start, where'd you grow up, and how'd you get into law, and what are you doin' right now? .
- Well my background.
- Yeah.
- I'm a Jersey girl born and raised.
- Yep, Bloomfield.
- Plainfields.
- There you go, okay.
- And spent 18 years of my life in New Jersey. I went to a very small private school called the Pengrey School in New Jersey. And I knew I wanted to live somewhere else different. I loved growing from Jersey, I'm glad I'm from there, but I was ready to experience some different aspects of life.
- Did you miss the cold, like the snow and stuff?
- I miss seeing the snow.
- Yeah. I don't miss the snow.
- I don't miss being in the snow, per se, especially as an adult. But I miss snow days, like snow days were the bomb.
- Right, right .
- Which is really ice, ice, and then snow on top of it. Then you were good.
- Yeah, scratchin' it off in the morning.
- Absolutely right. But when I decided to look at colleges, I went and looked at lots of different colleges. I probably was the college advisor's favorite kid, because I was in there all the time, trying to decide where I wanted to be. And I went to, my small school in the '80s and '90s, did not have any African-American students at all. So I wanted to date, so I decided I was gonna go to a place where there were more African-American males. And so I came down to Atlanta, went to Emery university, but we have the Morehouse college and lots of other universities in the area. And did not find my husband there, but I loved Emery. And from Emery I have worked in higher education field. And so I went to the university of Georgia for my master's degree in higher ed.
- Mm-hmm, bulldogs.