Dawn Watkins

Biography

Dawn Watkins is the Director of Integrated Disability Management for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
Ms. Watkins has over 30 years’ experience in Risk Management in both the private and public sector.  In 2004, she joined the Risk Management Division of LAUSD where she held progressively responsible positions. Since 2006, she had led one of the largest self-insured workers’ compensation programs in the state as well as Absence Management Reasonable Accommodations, Return to Work and Protected Leave programs.
In 2008, Ms. Watkins received the Risk Innovator award and under her leadership LAUSD received the “Theodore Roosevelt” award for excellence in workers’ compensation and disability management in the public sector.  Both awards were issued by Risk and Insurance magazine.
Ms. Watkins earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.  Ms. Watkins holds the Professional in Human Resources (PHR), Associate in Claims (AIC) and Associate in Risk Management- Public Entities (ARM-P) designations and a California Self Insured Administrators certificate. 

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