LDF

Leadership

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sherrilyn Ifill

President and Director-Counsel
Janai Nelson

Janai Nelson

Associate Director-Counsel
Samuel Spital

Samuel Spital

Director of Litigation
Lisa Cylar Barrett

Lisa Cylar Barrett

Director of Policy
Janell Byrd-Chichester

Janell Byrd-Chichester

Director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute
V. Renée Cutting

V. Renée Cutting

Chief Development Officer
Christine Gregory

Christine Gregory

Chief Operating Officer
Kevin C. Thomson

Kevin C. Thomson

Chief Financial Officer
Jin Hee Lee

Jin Hee Lee

Senior Deputy Director of Litigation
Leah C. Aden

Leah C. Aden

Deputy Director of Litigation
Monique L. Dixon

Monique L. Dixon

Director of State Advocacy and Deputy Policy Director
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele

Director of Community Organizing

LDF Staff

Litigation

Leah C. Aden

Deputy Director of Litigation

Raymond Audain

Senior Counsel

Jason Bailey

Special Economic Justice Counsel

Catherine Blalock

Paralegal

Lorenzo Bradford

Research Associate

Ashok Chandran

Assistant Counsel

John Cusick

Litigation Fellow

Daniel Harawa

Of Counsel

GeDa Jones Herbert

Education Special Counsel

Jennifer Holmes

Assistant Counsel

Kevin Jason

Assistant Counsel

Kristen A. Johnson

Assistant Counsel

Chris Kemmitt

Senior Counsel & Director of Professional Development

Rachel M. Kleinman

Senior Counsel & Director of Professional Development

Steven Lance

Litigation Fellow

Jin Hee Lee

Senior Deputy Director of Litigation

Monique Lin-Luse

Assistant Counsel

Cara McClellan

Assistant Counsel

Natasha Merle

Senior Counsel

Catherine Meza

Senior Counsel

Zachery Morris

LDF/Fried Frank Fellow

Patricia Okonta

Skadden Fellow

Kaisha Oliver

Paralegal

Ajmel Quereshi

Senior Counsel

Deuel Ross

Senior Counsel

Rick Rozos

Paralegal Manager

Omavi Shukur

Assistant Counsel

Samuel Spital

Director of Litigation

Aaron Sussman

Law and Policy Fellow

Victoria (Tori) Wenger

Skadden Fellow

Michaele Turnage Young

Senior Counsel

Liliana Zaragoza

Assistant Counsel

Policy Staff

Lisa Cylar Barrett

Director of Policy

Monique L. Dixon

Director of State Advocacy and Deputy Policy Director

Jared Evans

Policy Counsel

Hamida Suad Labi

Policy Counsel

Allen Liu

Law and Policy Fellow

Zahra Mion

Policy and Research Associate

Aaron Sussman

Law and Policy Fellow

Katurah Topps

Policy Counsel

Thurgood Marshall Institute

Dr. Algernon Austin

Senior Researcher

Janell Byrd-Chichester

Director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute

Anthony Thomas-Davis

Manager of the Prosecutor Reform Project

Dr. Megan Ming Francis

Fellow

Jair Froome

Research and Operations Associate

Donna S. Gloeckner

Director of Archives and Records

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff

Senior Fellow

Kayla Jenkins

Archives Associate

Coty Montag

Project Manager, Thurgood Marshall Institute & Senior Counsel

Dr. Kesha Moore

Senior Researcher and Development Specialist

Richard Rothstein

Senior Fellow Emeritus

Will Searcy

Research and Operations Associate

Ashton Wingate

Digital Archivist

Communications Staff

Sarah Friedmann

Senior Staff Writer

Olamide Noah

Manager, Creative and Digital Strategy

Phoebe Plagens

Director of Media Relations

Ella L. Wiley

Communications Assistant

Development Staff

Virita Ainapudi

Special Events Associate

V. Renée Cutting

Chief Development Officer

Laura Fino

Senior Director of Institutional Giving

Christopher Francis

Database Manager

Valaida Guerrero

Senior Director of Major Gifts

Hanif Mohammed

Senior Director of Development Operations

Cynthia Diaz-Nieves

Database Coordinator

Sherisse Quince

Development Associate

Briana Rheubottom

Development Coordinator, Individual Giving

Ron Sykes

Direct Marketing and Annual Giving Manager

Samantha Watson

Director of Strategic Partnerships and Special Events

May White-Vilmouth

Institutional Giving Associate and Development Writer

Organizing

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele

Director of Community Organizing

Ralikh Hayes

Community Organizer

Estherjoy Mungai

Community Organizer