Obi Nwabuzor is the Strategic Events Manager and is responsible for managing and implementing the Center for Constitutional Rights' public programmatic events. Obi previously worked as the Special...
Colette Pichon Battle (she/her) is the Vision and Initiatives Partner for Taproot Earth. She spearheaded efforts around equitable climate disaster recovery, global migration, community economic...
Katherine Acey, New York, served as the Executive Director of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice for twenty-three years (1987 – 2010). Under her stewardship Astraea established the nation's first...
Laila Al-Arian, Virginia, is a journalist, writer and filmmaker based in Washington DC. For her investigative documentary "Made in Bangladesh," she received the Peabody award and Robert F Kennedy...
Rosemary R. Corbett, New York, is a Faculty Fellow with the Bard Prison Initiative and has a PhD in Religion from Columbia University with a focus on Islam in the United States. She has previously...
Leila Hessini, North Carolina, serves as the Vice President of Programs at Global Fund for Women and oversees its strategic grantmaking, movement-strengthening, voice, and advocacy efforts. She is a...
We won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a federal court ruled the New York City Police Department’s use of the practice was unconstitutional. But as the lawyers in the case, our work isn’t done...
Gay McDougall’s work has consistently challenged inequality. She has worked on the fault-lines of race, gender and economic exploitation in the American context and in countries around the world. Gay...
Lisa Crooms-Robinson, District of Columbia, is a Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law where she teaches Constitutional Law, Gender and the Law, International Human Rights Law, Supreme...
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele is an organizer and educator based in central Brooklyn. He is the former National Strategies and Partnerships Director at The Movement for Black Lives. From 2011 to 2020, he...
