Lucia Kanter St. Amour

Under the Sisterhood

UTS is a social impact company that addresses the critical gaps in women’s health education, diagnosis, and treatment. As CLO, I'm responsible for: legal guidance on general business operations, partnerships, and organizational practices; contract review and negotiation with vendors and partners; policy development ensuring legal, ethical, and privacy compliance; risk awareness and mitigation; recommending practical strategies that project the organization’s integrity and vision; addressing potential legal issues related to employment and board members; liaising and supervising outside counsel; partnering with cross-functional teams to effectively communicate the organization’s mission, support its programs, and amplify its social justice initiatives.

Chief Legal Officer

Pactum Factum

Chief Legal/Negotiation Officer for various corporations, NCAA athletes, and organizations; U.S. mediation liaison to Supreme Court of India 2022-2023; have mediated/negotiated 1000+ cases; host of "Forces of Good" podcast. Seasoned employment law and negotiation expert. Pactum Factum Press publishing.

Attorney | CLO | Publisher

UN Women

VP, San Francisco  - the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. UN Women USA is the official, membership-based non-profit organization that raises funds and awareness for UN Women, the United Nations agency that advances gender equality and female empowerment globally.  Events and projects include: Cities for CEDAW a nationwide, grassroots effort to encourage local governments to become more gender equitable; EVAW - an effort to End Violence Against Women; The Gender Equal Pay coalition; HeForShe, a social movement campaign providing a systematic approach and targeted platform through which men and boys become agents of change for the achievement of gender equality; Women In Climate Change Gender Action Plan; Bi-annual Global Voices Film Festival

Vice President - UN Women USA

Spectrum Strategies for Autism

501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing sibling programming; and rescue dog matching, placement and training to families with children with Autism and other special needs.

University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)

Teaching:  Negotiation / Mediation Clinic / Mediation Certification for Professionals / Special Education  Law. 2003-2012 taught regular course(s) on-site each semester. I tried to retire, but noooooo. They wouldn't let me 😂 2013-present continue on faculty as hybrid (remote and on-site) coach and instructor

Law Professor (Adj.)

International Chamber of Commerce

Serving as judge and mediator for ICC mediation competition in Paris, France

Mediator and Judge

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

Teaching Negotiation practical skills course and supervising independent studies

Lecturer

EEOC

One of the small team of original designers of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s pilot mediation program in 1996 for the San Francisco Regional Office, and later mediated EEOC cases from San Jose to Sacramento

Mediator

Judicial Council of California

In-house employment law attorney for the Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), the policymaking body for the entire California court system for 58 counties and the Supreme Court of California. I advised the Judicial Council, the Chief Justice of California, and trial and appellate court judges and court officers, contributing to major policy and legal decisions on employment and labor issues that affect the entire judicial branch of California. During that time, I was also selected by the California Division for Judicial Education and Research (CJER) as a representative attorney for the judicial branch to conduct ongoing discrimination and harassment training through live, televised, satellite broadcast programming to court employees statewide. The target 20,000-member audience consisted of judges, human resources professionals, court directors and court staff. Broadcasting live with a studio audience, I also co-hosted CJER’s production of “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:  A Celebration of Justice,” as part of the Division’s Continuing The Dialogue television series. The content of many of the broadcasts drew upon expertise in the field of Civil Rights and various discrimination and fair employment laws.

Attorney - Office of the General Counsel

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Upon dissolution of boutique labor & employment firm in San Francisco, joined Orrick's Employment Law group and handled all aspects of litigation and client counseling. Closest clients I worked with included Gap, Apple, Oracle, Electronic Arts

Employment Litigation Attorney

VP Emerita UN Women | Attorney Action Figure 🦸🏻‍♀️ | Arresting Author | Chief Negotiation Officer | Plucky Podcast Host | Irreverent Int'l Keynote | "What Box?" Bellwether

📚 World domination through literary seduction. Elegant. Defiant. Irresistibly true. Are you ready for what's next (October 13, 2025)? MY WRITING IS ORGANIC USING REAL INTELLIGENCE (AI wishes it could write like me)

I'm not bossy. I'm BOSS. A UN Women VP, provocatrice, attorney/law professor turned negotiation GOAT . . .

(Buckle up. This is ..."a lot")

🦸🏻‍♀️ I help women harness the power of everyday negotiation—from conning a toddler into eating peas to running the boardroom. I authored the Little Black Dress of negotiation books. Why?

Because negotiation isn’t just for business. It’s everybody’s business 🧐

(But you don’t need me to “empower” you. Nor do I sell a “masterclass” or certification from my own “institute”)

🌍 World Mediation Peace Activist. Benevolent & incurable explorer (dubbed “creative savant”—you know who you are). A bit wild at ❤️‍🔥, I struggle with purpose and disrupt with goodwill—through advocacy, teaching, writing, broadcasting, philanthropy, art & sports.

🗣️ Polyglot. Passionate about people & social progress. JEDI agent (not a Star Wars ref). I’ve practiced law in private, public & non-profit sectors; have taught internationally, including over two decades as faculty at two University of California law schools.

I get that people are messy multitudes—and how they actually behave in conflict & decision-making.
What makes me next-level? Decades of deep experience in negotiation, behavioral economics, game theory, plus dope training in:

✔️ Emotional micro-expressions
✔️ Lie detection
✔️ Neuroscience & decision analysis

Oh, and I know the #1 most stealth negotiation skill. 😎

(Kinda like x-ray vision. Hint: it’s NOT “speaking your truth.”)

WHAT I’M NOT:

❌ A sales/marketing bro who built my expertise off a “masterclass”
❌ A brand
❌ Your income stream
❌ After your 💰 or approval
❌ One to trademark words. Ahem™ 🙄 (you know the type)

Special needs parent & dog whisperer—chaos doesn’t faze me, and persistence is my default setting. CEO of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing dogs & sibling support for families with special needs kids.

🫶 Turn-ons: Cake, shoes, pour-over coffee, decent literature
🤢 Turn-offs: NIMBYism, vapid buzzwords, elitism, posers

💡 Meyers-Briggs type? ENFJ-A (same 2% club as Obama & Oprah).

🕸️See more on pactumfactum.com, but TLDR: 
I’m 95% human Labrador (begs the question: what’s the other 5%?). Find it endearing or annoying. That's on you. Either way, I’ll be me because, as Oscar Wilde said, “Everyone else is taken.”

P.S.
❌ I don’t do casual Zoom coffee chats
✅ I’ve already overpaid it forward

Podcast Host

"Forces of Good" podcast - Click here to listen and subscribe for free: https://pactumfactum.substack.com

S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour

Colson Center

Fellows Program

The Savvy Citizen

The Savvy Citizen equips ordinary Americans with the historical context, civic knowledge, and legal understanding needed to get a handle on the origins of American government, the evolution of American culture, the hope and hurt that unites and divides, American society.

We give it our all to: 

(1) explain America’s founding, nearly 250 year history, complex legal system, and the fundamental rights and responsibilities of American citizenship,

(2) explore various parts of American life and grapple with why it is the way it is, and

(3) engage in lively and wide-ranging conversations with the melting pot of everyday Americans from all walks of life and worldviews. 

Simply put, we love to learn and to teach others what we know. 

During the 2020 election cycle, American discourse fell deep into the gutter. Advocacy through fearmongering and falsehoods displaced rational conversations based on factual analysis at an unprecedented speed. Personal relationships were being sacrificed on the altar of political correctness which, at the end of the day, was generally based on feelings and presumptions rooted in subjective truth claims grounded in, well, nothing. It was - and still is - a disaster.

Information, as they say, is the antidote to anxiety-we’re here to reduce this suffocating anxiety by presenting information in an understandable way.

Our content is organized around 5 content pillars designed to hep you, the reader, gain and maintain … 

(1) a working knowledge of the U.S. Constitution and the government it creates 

(2) a general understanding of the American legal system, the role it plays in society and culture, and how to participate in it

(3) a strong familiarity with the fundamental, and non-fundamental, rights and responsibilities of America

(4) a curiosity for differing viewpoints and a steadfast belief in freedom for all, and 

(5) an appreciation of American history and its place in the world.

If you're game to learn, you're in the right place!

Writer

I Am Roe, Hear Me Roar! (Podcast)

A podcast about the legal history of abortion.

1st Gen Entrepreneurs

I develop and teach legal and law-related workshops to first generation entrepreneuers.

Founding Member, Legal Instructor

Enterprising Women

Advisory Board Member

Essential Skills Program (ESP)

Vistage Worldwide, Inc.

Kelley leads executive workshops about intellectual property law with a focus on transforming a company's ideas and innovation into valuable business assets through employee training, corporate culture development, and identification, management, and protection process implementation.

Executive Speaker

Widener University Commonwealth Law School

Kelley teaches Trademark and Copyright Law to Widener law students.

Adjunct Professor of Law

The Keller Law Firm, LLC

Through The Keller Law Firm, Kelley Keller, Esq. helps entrepreneurs, innovators, and small business owners protect and profit from their intellectual property.  

As an intellectual property attorney, she has more than 20-years of experience helping businesses of all sizes (including many household brands) identify, manage, and protect their valuable intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

Kelley’s personable nature and ability to explain complex legal issues in simple terms set her apart from most attorneys. She is relentless in helping business owners set their businesses up to mitigate risks and open the doors to new opportunities.

As an intellectual property attorney, Kelley provides advice and counsel to clients on the selection, adoption, maintenance, and enforcement of their trademarks. She drafts opinions on the availability and proper use of trademarks, and prepares, files, and prosecutes U.S. trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and abroad.

Kelley also offers legal advice and counseling to clients on various copyright matters, including registration, licensing, enforcement, and rights clearance. She prepares, files, and prosecutes U.S. copyright applications before the U.S. Copyright Office.

She provides advice and counsel to clients in matters related to intellectual property and new media, including the adoption and use of domain names, use of dispute resolution forums, and anti-cybersquatting issues. She advises and counsels clients on issues that arise in the development and licensing of software and the development of social media marketing strategies.

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