Warren Whitlock
Warren S. Whitlock is a strategic advisor to Coopersmith Law + Strategy on racial and gender equity. Warren is former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Diversity & Leadership, where he delivered a modernized Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Plan that included implementation. He also reengaged the Army’s Diversity Council, updated the Army’s 30-year-old policy for Equal Employment Opportunity, and coordinated efforts to deliver the Army’s first policies on transgender soldiers and religious accommodations.
Warren is an internationally recognized policy leader with an exemplary record of accomplishment in government, academia, and in the private sector, including finance, construction, real estate, and transportation. He is former Associate Administrator for Civil Rights at the Federal Highway Administration, a former government executive at the New York State Department of Transportation, and First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Community Development Agency at the Empire State Development Corporation.
As the Associate Administrator for Civil Rights at the Federal Highway Administration, Warren successfully prosecuted Title VI discrimination cases in Beavercreek, Ohio and Corpus Christi, Texas, attained FHWA’s largest increase in American with Disabilities Acts (ADA) transition plans since the ADA Act’s passage in 1990. He was the Executive Sponsor for the creation and implementation of FHWA’s first policy for hiring Hispanic employees, expanding the National Transportation Training Institute to include Asian-American Pacific Islander territories.
Warren also served as Director of Construction Coordination at Columbia University, advising the Executive Vice President of Administration on the internal and external community impacts of $8 billion in new construction. He also completed investment banking training on Wall Street and worked with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, where he served for four years as an education expert in Somalia.
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice recognized Warren’s work as one of the federal government’s top five civil rights cases during the 50tth anniversary of the Civil Rights.
Warren is a graduate of Princeton University. He earned an MS from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and is a Charles Revson Fellow.