Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Monique Lin-Luse is Senior Counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Monique has over ten years of advocacy, organizing, and educator experience in youth development, education access, social justice, and civil rights. She has focused her work on removing barriers to educational success for all students and ending the criminalization of youth of color. […]
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. today announced that Monique L. Dixon has been appointed Senior Policy Counsel for Criminal Justice and State Education Initiatives, a new position based in Washington, D.C. that will focus on much-needed federal and state policy reforms. Ms. Dixon comes to LDF from the Open Society Institute in […]
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | staff
Monique L. Dixon serves as Deputy Director of Policy and Director of State Advocacy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), Inc. In these roles, she is responsible for assisting with the development, coordination and implementation of LDF’s overall federal policy and legislative reform priorities with a focus on criminal justice and education. […]
Thursday, July 23, 2015 | news
Unanswered questions surround Sandra Bland death Monique Dixon, senior policy counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, joins Andrea Mitchell to talk about the investigation into the death of Sandra Bland in a Texas jail cell.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 | news
After Mass Arrests During Freddie Gray Protests, Baltimore Public Defender To Challenge ‘Excessive’ Bail Amounts Monique Dixon, senior policy counsel for criminal justice at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), said that arrests during the Baltimore protests became particularly aggressive after the city implemented a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew May 1 and police officers reduced […]
Thursday, November 12, 2015 | news
Use of force in city schools merits scrutiny This week’s disturbing video of a South Carolina school police officer body slamming a black girl who refused to leave the classroom exposed the consequence of police disciplining students in our nation’s schools (“Since when is classroom backtalk a criminal offense?” Oct. 29). Baltimore’s school system has […]
Thursday, April 14, 2016 | news
Letter: NCPD needs thorough review …And while police traffic stops in North Charleston have decreased, racial disparities persist, with African Americans being stopped at higher rates than white residents. A comprehensive federal investigation of policing practices would reveal and address the reasons for these disparities. Read the full letter here.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | news
The DOJ’s new report on Chicago makes a pretty thorough case that the city’s police department as a whole—rather than a few bad-apple officers—needs an overhaul. But Monique Dixon, deputy director of policy and senior counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said she doesn’t expect Sessions will look to use federal courts to force […]
Friday, March 27, 2015 | news
DOJ Report on Ferguson, IranUS Negotiations, Jim Crow & Urban.. (II) “The Department of Justice recently released a comprehensive report on the practices of the Ferguson Police Department. What were the report’s conclusions? Much has been made of the relationship between racism & urban development through much of 20th century America, but what about the […]
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 | news
DOJ Roundtable: Consent Decree Reviews We hosted a DOJ Roundtable, focused on Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ order of a review of federal agreements and consent decrees across the country. With: Monique Dixon, Deputy Director of Policy for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Ray Kelly, Director of Community Relations at the No Boundaries Coalition; Jacqueline Robarge, […]
