Emahunn Campbell is an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). He joins LDF from Relman Colfax PLLC, where he was the 2023-2025 Civil Rights Fellow, focusing on federal housing litigation and prisoners’ rights litigation. Prior to his time at Relman Colfax, he was the 2022-2023 Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union. He also clerked for the Honorable Thomas W. Sumners, Jr., Chief Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division.
Emahunn received his J.D. from Rutgers Law School, Newark. During law school, he was awarded the Judge J. Skelly Wright Prize for the Greatest Contribution to Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Human Affairs. He also participated in the Constitutional Rights Clinic and the Civil Justice Clinic as a Kinoy-Stavis Public Interest Fellow, and was a fellow with the Eagleton Institute of Politics.
Emahunn graduated from the University of Virginia, where he received a B.A. in English. He also received in PhD from the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before law school, he worked as a high school English teacher and college professor.
