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

Amna Akbar
Amna Akbar

Associate Professor of Law, Ohio State University

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele

Senior Community Organizer, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc.; Adjunct Lecturer, Lehman College

Laila Al-Arian
Laila Al-Arian

Writer and Journalist

Leo Aldridge
Leo Aldridge

Criminal Defense Attorney, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Amanda Alexander
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
Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan

Associate Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF

Colette Pichon Battle
Colette Pichon Battle

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

Rosemary R. Corbett
Rosemary Corbett
Secretary

Faculty Fellow, Bard Prison Initiative

Lisa Crooms-Robinson
Lisa Crooms-Robinson

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

Michelle DePass
Michelle DePass

President and Chief Executive Officer of Meyer Memorial Trust

Marjorie Fine
Marjorie Fine

Grantmaking Consultant 

Katherine Franke
Katherine Franke
Chair

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

Justin Hansford
Justin Hansford

Associate Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center

Leila Hessini
Leila Hessini
Vice Chair

Vice President, Programs at Global Fund for Women

Nsombi Lambright
Nsombi Lambright

Executive Director,  One Voice

Gay McDougall
Gay McDougall

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

Jumana Musa
Jumana Musa

Director of the Fourth Amendment Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Vincent M. Southerland

Executive Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law

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