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
Jyarland Daniels

Jyarland Daniels

Interim Chief Communications 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

Samuel Spital

Director of Litigation

Ajmel Quereshi

Senior Counsel

Alexis Hoag

Senior Counsel

Catherine Meza

Senior Counsel

Chris Kemmitt

Senior Counsel & Director of Professional Development

Daniel Harawa

Of Counsel

Deuel Ross

Senior Counsel

Jennifer Holmes

Assistant Counsel

Jin Hee Lee

Senior Deputy Director of Litigation

Leah C. Aden

Deputy Director of Litigation

Liliana Zaragoza

Assistant Counsel

Marne Lenox

Assistant Counsel

Michaele Turnage Young

Senior Counsel

Monique Lin-Luse

Assistant Counsel

Natasha Merle

Senior Counsel

Rachel M. Kleinman

Senior Counsel & Director of Professional Development

Raymond Audain

Senior Counsel

GeDa Jones Herbert

Education Special Counsel

Fellows

Cara McClellan

Skadden Fellow

Sparky Abraham

Economic Justice Fellow

Aaron Sussman

Law and Policy Fellow

Zachery Morris

LDF/Fried Frank Fellow

Louis Fisher

Harvard Law Review Public Interest Fellow

John Cusick

Litigation Fellow

Patricia Okonta

Skadden Fellow

Kristen Johnson

LDF/Fried Frank Fellow

Steven Lance

Yale Law School Public Interest Fellow

Earl Kirkland

John Payton Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy Fellow

Allen Liu

Law and Policy Fellow

Paralegals

Matt Bailey

Paralegal

Catherine Blalock

Paralegal

Policy Staff

Lisa Cylar Barrett

Director of Policy

Katurah Topps

Policy Counsel

Monique L. Dixon

Director of State Advocacy and Deputy Policy Director

Nicole Dooley

Senior Policy Counsel

Rashida Ogletree-George

Managing Director of the Policing Reform Campaign

Hamida Suad Labi

Policy Counsel

Jared Evans

Policy Counsel

Zahra Mion

Policy and Research Associate

Communications Staff

Jyarland Daniels

Interim Chief Communications Officer

Phoebe Plagens

Director of Media Relations

April Avant

Senior Digital Communications Manager

Ella Wiley

Communications Assistant

Keecee DeVenny

Digital Media Associate

Olamide Noah

Senior Communications Associate and Strategist

Thurgood Marshall Institute

Janell Byrd-Chichester

Director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute

Ashton Wingate

Digital Archivist

Coty Montag

Project Manager, Thurgood Marshall Institute & Senior Counsel

Donna S. Gloeckner

Director of Archives and Records

Dr. Algernon Austin

Senior Researcher

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff

Senior Fellow

Kayla Jenkins

Archives Associate

Richard Rothstein

Senior Fellow Emeritus

Will Searcy

Research and Operations Associate

Anthony Thomas-Davis

Manager of the Prosecutor Reform Project

Development Staff

V. Renée Cutting

Chief Development Officer

Christopher Francis

Database Manager

Cynthia Diaz-Nieves

Database Coordinator

Laura Fino

Senior Director of Institutional Giving

Samantha Watson

Director of Strategic Partnerships and Special Events

Sherisse Quince

Development Associate

Nia Winslow

Stewardship and Events Manager

Organizing

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele

Director of Community Organizing

Marquis Jenkins

Senior Community Organizer

Estherjoy Mungai

Community Organizer

Ralikh Hayes

Community Organizer