LDF

Leadership

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sherrilyn Ifill

President and Director-Counsel
Janai Nelson

Janai Nelson

Associate Director-Counsel
Kevin C. Thomson

Kevin C. Thomson

Chief Financial Officer
Christine Gregory

Christine Gregory

Chief Operating Officer
V. Renée Cutting

V. Renée Cutting

Chief Development Officer
Janell Byrd-Chichester

Janell Byrd-Chichester

Director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute
Samuel Spital

Samuel Spital

Director of Litigation
Lisa Cylar Barrett

Lisa Cylar Barrett

Director of Policy
Leah C. Aden

Leah C. Aden

Deputy Director of Litigation
Jin Hee Lee

Jin Hee Lee

Senior 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
Jyarland Daniels

Jyarland Daniels

Interim Chief Communications Officer

LDF Staff

Litigation

Kevin Jason

Assistant Counsel

Samuel Spital

Director of Litigation

Leah C. Aden

Deputy Director of Litigation

Jin Hee Lee

Senior Deputy Director of Litigation

GeDa Jones Herbert

Education Special Counsel

Liliana Zaragoza

Assistant Counsel

Michaele Turnage Young

Senior Counsel

Ajmel Quereshi

Senior Counsel

Catherine Meza

Senior Counsel

Chris Kemmitt

Senior Counsel & Director of Professional Development

Jennifer Holmes

Assistant Counsel

Daniel Harawa

Of Counsel

Deuel Ross

Senior Counsel

Natasha Merle

Senior Counsel

Cara McClellan

Assistant Counsel

Monique Lin-Luse

Assistant Counsel

Marne Lenox

Assistant Counsel

Rachel M. Kleinman

Senior Counsel & Director of Professional Development

Kristen A. Johnson

Assistant Counsel

Alexis Hoag

Senior Counsel

Raymond Audain

Senior Counsel

Fellows

Allen Liu

Law and Policy Fellow

Steven Lance

Yale Law School Public Interest Fellow

Patricia Okonta

Skadden Fellow

Louis Fisher

Harvard Law Review Public Interest Fellow

Zachery Morris

LDF/Fried Frank Fellow

Aaron Sussman

Law and Policy Fellow

Sparky Abraham

Economic Justice Fellow

Earl Kirkland

John Payton Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy Fellow

John Cusick

Litigation Fellow

Paralegals

Catherine Blalock

Paralegal

Matt Bailey

Paralegal

Policy Staff

Lisa Cylar Barrett

Director of Policy

Monique L. Dixon

Director of State Advocacy and Deputy Policy Director

Zahra Mion

Policy and Research Associate

Jared Evans

Policy Counsel

Hamida Suad Labi

Policy Counsel

Rashida Ogletree-George

Managing Director of the Policing Reform Campaign

Katurah Topps

Policy Counsel

Nicole Dooley

Senior Policy Counsel

Communications Staff

Jyarland Daniels

Interim Chief Communications Officer

Olamide Noah

Senior Communications Associate and Strategist

Keecee DeVenny

Digital Media Associate

Ella L. Wiley

Communications Assistant

Phoebe Plagens

Director of Media Relations

Thurgood Marshall Institute

Anthony Thomas-Davis

Manager of the Prosecutor Reform Project

Dr. Algernon Austin

Senior Researcher

Ashton Wingate

Digital Archivist

Will Searcy

Research and Operations Associate

Kayla Jenkins

Archives Associate

Donna S. Gloeckner

Director of Archives and Records

Dr. Megan Ming Francis

Fellow

Richard Rothstein

Senior Fellow Emeritus

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff

Senior Fellow

Coty Montag

Project Manager, Thurgood Marshall Institute & Senior Counsel

Development Staff

V. Renée Cutting

Chief Development Officer

Nia Winslow

Stewardship and Events Manager

Cynthia Diaz-Nieves

Database Coordinator

Sherisse Quince

Development Associate

Samantha Watson

Director of Strategic Partnerships and Special Events

Tawana Pyle

Database Coordinator

Christopher Francis

Database Manager

Laura Fino

Senior Director of Institutional Giving

Organizing

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele

Director of Community Organizing

Ralikh Hayes

Community Organizer

Estherjoy Mungai

Community Organizer

Marquis Jenkins

Senior Community Organizer