Patricia Donkor
Senior Corporate Counsel
Patricia Donkor, Senior Corporate Counsel, joined Steampunk in June 2022. She is an experienced attorney that has worked in multiple jurisdictions, across different industries, and in both the public and private sectors. Her unique skill set comes from a broad range of work experiences including litigating employment, civil rights, and constitutional matters, providing advice and counsel on regulatory compliance, ethics, privacy, internal investigations, governance, risk considerations, responding to subpoenas, and drafting and overhauling various agreements, policies, and forms.
Prior to joining Steampunk, Patricia worked as a litigation associate at Littler Mendelson’s Washington, DC office, oversaw the legal department at the District of Columbia’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs as Deputy General Counsel, and spent several years litigating complex civil lawsuits as Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Litigation Division of the DC Office of the Attorney General. She also served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Thomas J. Motley of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia.
In January 2024, Patricia was selected to chair Steampunk’s Empower Our Community initiative in addition to the legal work she performs. In this role, Patricia oversees the Company’s efforts to carry out its Empower Our Community core value through diversity and inclusion intentions such as its employee resource groups (“ERGs”).
Patricia has served as a leader on a myriad of professional boards, including the Federal City Alumnae Chapter’s International Awareness and Involvement Committee, the Greater Washington Area Chapter of the Women’s Lawyer’s Division, National Bar Association, and the Northern Virgina Black Attorney’s Association.
Patricia is a native of Alexandria, Virginia. She earned her law degree at George Mason University School of Law and her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Marketing from Virginia Tech. Patricia is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc
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