Anna Maria Tejada is a partner at Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck in Hackensack, where she heads the labor and employment group in New Jersey. She founded what’s become a very successful Hispanic Bar Association pipeline program at her alma mater, Passaic High School. The program mentors students in the law and other topics, focuses on likely first-generation college attendees, and was expanded more recently to Union City High School. She is active in other Hispanic Bar Association programs, among other organizations, and is co-chair of Kaufman Dolowich’s women’s initiative.

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