Kameron Dawson serves as the Legal Director of the Southern Office at A Better Balance based in Nashville, TN. A member of A Better Balance since 2019, Kameron leverages the power of the law to write, advance, and implement more family-friendly laws and policies in collaboration with advocates at the federal, state, and local level on issues ranging from pregnancy accommodations to paid leave, and builds sustainable community partnerships and coalitions with organizations across the region. Additionally, Kameron supports A Better Balance’s legal services and strategic litigation efforts, ensuring workers in the South who are suffering from discrimination understand their legal rights and have the resources needed to enforce those laws.
In the South, Kameron has worked on several campaigns to expand access to pregnancy and lactation accommodations and paid family and medical leave to workers in the region, especially in the public sector. Kameron has presented at numerous trainings and panels, including All In Together’s Black Women Lead, DOL & EEOC’s Black Women at Work, Louisiana Status of Women for the Governor’s Office, and the National WIC Association’s Annual Conference.
Kameron graduated from the University of Georgia, and earned her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she served as an executive editor of the Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, the candidacy process editor for the Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy, and a student attorney in the Community Economic Development clinic. She also served as Chair in the school’s Student Council on Diversity & Inclusion, creating engaging programs that focused on issues of diversity and the law. Prior to joining A Better Balance, Kameron served as a 5th grade educator with Teach for America.
