The premier African American newspaper in Philadelphia recently recounted a powerful address delivered by Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill to an audience of over 150 including civil rights leaders, congressional staffers, judges, at a reception hosted by the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski in Washington, D.C. In her remarks Ifill, who became Director-Counsel of the LDF earlier this year, described her vision for the organization's work, including an emphasis on removing barriers to economic opportunity for African Americans. Read the article containing Ifill's remarks here.
Victor Bolden, Corporation Counsel, City of New Haven, Connecticut; Chinh Le, Legal Director, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
Caroline Fredrickson, President, American Constitution Society ; Tony Orza, Orza Strategies
Vernon Simms, Chief of Staff, Congressman Elijah Cummings; Jacqueline Berrien, Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Johnathan Smith, NAACP LDF: Matthew Colangelo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights; Ryan Downer, Relman, Dane and Colfax
Carolyn Lerner, Special Counsel, U.S. Office of Special Counsel; Joe Rich, Director of the Fair Housing Project, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights; Christine Ladd, Deputy Assistant Director, Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Gay McDougall; Eric Angel, Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia; Stephanie Jones, Stephanie Jones Strategies
Deidre Swesnik, Director of Public Policy and Communications, National Fair Housing Alliance; Damon Hewitt, NAACP LDF; Vanita Gupta, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU; Chinh Le, Legal Director, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
Gwen McKinney, McKinney & Associates; Monique Brizz-Walker, NAACP LDF; Llenda Jackson-Leslie, McKinney & Associates
Glenn Ivey, Leftwich and Ludaway; Okainer Christian Dark, Interim Dean, Howard University School of Law; Judge Richard Roberts, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Judith Browne Dianis, Co-Director, Advancement Project; Damon Hewitt, Director, Education Practice, NAACP LDF
Janell Byrd-Chichester, Mehri and Skalet; Ellen Eardley, Mehri and Skalet; Nina Pillard, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Elaine Jones, Sherrilyn Ifill and Ted Shaw
Michael Calhoun, President, Center for Responsible Lending; Devarieste Curry, McLeod, Watkinson and Miller
Leslie Proll and Elaine Jones
Jason Green, Deputy Associate Counsel to the President; Anurima Bhargava, Chief, Educational Opportunities Section, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
Judith Browne-Dianis, Co-Director, Advancement Project; Heather Foster, Director of African American Outreach, White House Office of Public Engagement
Seth Galanter, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Department of Education; Diane Piche, Director of Education Program, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Deidre Swesnik, Directof of Public Policy and Communications, National Fair Housing Alliance; Lara Kaufmann, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
Janaye Ingram, DC Bureau Chief, National Action Network; Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF; Abre Connor, LDF
Eric Gonzalez, LDF and Tanay Harris, LDF
Sherrilyn Ifill and Gay McDougall
Johnathan Smith, Christina Smith, and Candace Jones, White House Fellow
Christina Smith, Johnathan Smith, and Meredith Horton, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
Richard Smith, Fulbright and Jaworski LLP
