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Patricia Okonta

Patricia Okonta joined LDF as Assistant Counsel in 2022. Prior to joining LDF, Patricia severed as law clerk for Chief Judge Margo K. Brodie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Jane B. Stranch in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Previously, she completed […]

Patricia L. Irvin

Patients, Health Care Providers, and Civil Rights Organizations Urge Shareholders at Tenet Healthcare to Support Proposal on Maternal Health Transparency, Highlight Public Health Crisis Facing Black Pregnant People

Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with the NAACP, the National Action Network, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, and the W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute, sent a letter to shareholders at Tenet Healthcare Corporation urging them to support a proposal related to maternal health. […]

PASCO Coalition Demands School District End Illegal Surveillance Program

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – The People Against the Surveillance of Children and Over-policing (PASCO) Coalition sent an 11-page letter today urging the Pasco County School District to immediately end all student data-sharing agreements used by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office to surveil and harass students and families.    The letter describes how the district’s practice […]

Parents and Advocates Push Back on Attempt to Roll Back Desegregation Efforts in Hartford Public Schools

Related Case or Issue: Sheff v. O’Neill   Parents and education advocates are concerned that progress made to desegregate public schools in Hartford, Connecticut and surrounding suburbs will be reversed, according to a motion to intervene filed today in the U.S. District Court of Connecticut. The motion is seeking to allow parents and education advocates to intervene […]

Pamela Giller

Pamela Giller joined LDF in November 2025 as Chief Development Officer. She brings more than two decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, most recently serving as Vice President of Development at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Giller is a seasoned nonprofit strategist with deep expertise in relationship-building and fundraising. Based in […]

Oversight Hearing: ReNika Moore Testimony

Testimony by ReNika Moore Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (Co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Wright v. Stern) Oversight Hearing: “More Than One Year After Wright v. Stern: Ensuring No Future Discrimination in the Parks Department.” Before the Committee on Civil Rights and the Committee on Parks and Recreation Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:30 […]

Overcoming White Supremacy in Louisiana

Brentin Mock writes for Demos about our case in Terrebonne Parish challenging the discriminatory at-large system of voting. He highlights the state’s long history of voter discrimination and argues that “vestiges of that Louisiana-styled white supremacy can be found today in Terrebonne Parish (county), where African Americans have been unable to serve as judges in […]

Over Two-Dozen Evangelical Christian Leaders in Texas and Nationwide Request Mercy for Duane Buck, Urge District Attorney to Not Seek Execution Date

(Houston, TX, Thursday, November 21, 2013) – Today, 27 Evangelical Christian leaders across Texas and the United States are calling on Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson to allow a new, fair sentencing hearing for Duane Buck. Mr. Buck is an African-American man who was condemned to death after his sentencing jury was told that […]