Board of Trustees

December 3, 2014

CCR’s Board is made up of some of the country’s leading progressives, from lawyers and longtime activists, to human rights pioneers and academics. Many began their association with CCR as volunteers, interns, staff attorneys, movement allies, co-counsel, and advisors, and they contribute to our vision and our effectiveness through their expertise, passion, and commitment to social justice.

Katherine Acey

Treasurer

Senior Activist Fellow, Barnard Center for Research on Women; Director of Strategic Collaborations, Griot Circle; Executive Director, Emeritus, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele

Senior Community Organizer, LDF; Adjunct Lecturer, Lehman College
Laila Al-Arian

Writer and Journalist
Leo Aldridge

Criminal Defense Attorney, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Amanda Alexander

Assistant professor and Postdoctoral Scholar in Afro-American studies and law at the University of Michigan; Member of the, Michigan Society of Fellows
Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan

Associate Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
Colette Pichon Battle

Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP)
Rosemary Corbett

Secretary

Faculty Fellow, Bard Prison Initiative
Lisa Crooms-Robinson

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Howard University
Michelle DePass

President and Chief Executive Officer of Meyer Memorial Trust
Jean Entine

Retired
Marjorie Fine

Grantmaking Consultant
Katherine Franke

Chair

Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Columbia University
Leila Hessini

Vice Chair

Vice President, Programs at Global Fund for Women
Nsombi Lambright

Executive Director, Director of One Voice
Monami Maulik

International Advocate on Gender and Migration; Founder, DRUM
Gay McDougall

Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham University School of Law