LaToya Jones Burrell, JD, MBA

LaToya Jones Burrell, JD, MBA, is General Counsel for Zinpro Corporation and Executive Director of Anderson Foundation. She also leads Zinpro's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Team and Zinpro's Corporate Giving program, Zinpro's Rising T.I.D.E.S. for Change.

Prior to joining Zinpro, she was Dean of Graduate Education and Accreditation at North Central University in Minneapolis, MN. During her tenure at North Central University, she was a peer reviewer with the Higher Leaming Commission Accrediting Body and worked to gain approval for additional masters programs. She also coached an award winning American Mock Trial Association team.

Prior to higher education, her practice areas included bankruptcy and multi district litigation and mass torts. She also served as an academic counselor and adjunct professor at both Southern University Law Center and Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

During her tenure at Southern University Law Center ('09), she was on the Moot Court board, Managing Editor for the Journal of Race Gender and Poverty, member of the American Trial Lawyers Association mock trial team, Student Bar Association 3L Class President, SULC Recruitment Committee member, and a Barbri student representative. She was also a Marshall Brennan High School Constitutional Literacy Mentor and Coach, CALI award recipient for multiple courses, teaching assistant, civil law clinical education student, and she graduated in the top of her class.

In addition to her Southern University Law Center juris doctorate degree, she earned her MBA from Metropolitan State University, and her BS degree in Business Administration from Northwestern State University of Louisiana. She is licensed to practice law in Minnesota and Louisiana.

She is the author of Be Bold: How to Prepare Your Heart and Mind for Racial Reconciliation inspired and written after George Floyd was murdered a few miles away from her home.

She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Jack and Jill of America, and serves on the board of directors for Bountifield International.

She resides in Minneapolis MN with her husband and SULC alum Gregory Burrell, and their two sons, Grayson and Garrison.