Katherine Acey served as the Executive Director of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice for twenty-three years (1987 – 2010). Under her stewardship Astraea established the nation's first Lesbian...
On April 13, 2018, CCR joined Palestine Legal, Jewish Voice for Peace, and eleven other organizations in sending a letter to 280 universities asking officials to take action to protect free speech in...
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele is the Senior Community Organizer at LDF. He is a community organizer and educator from Central Brooklyn. From 1994 – 1998 Lumumba served as programming coordinator at the...
CCR is thrilled to be an organizational partner on Days of Remembrance and Resistance , an exhibit and series of events coordinated by the New York City Day of Remembrance Committee to shed light on...
Laila Al-Arian is a journalist, writer and filmmaker based in Washington DC. For her investigative documentary "Made in Bangladesh," she received the Peabody award and Robert F Kennedy Award in...
Leo Aldridge is a criminal defense attorney in private practice in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He previously served as a trial attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services, and a federal public defender in...
Amanda Alexander is an assistant professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies and a Postdoctoral Scholar in Law at the University of Michigan, and a nationally recognized scholar of race and...
Baher Azmy is the Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He directs all litigation and advocacy around issues related to the promotion of civil and human rights. At CCR, he has...
Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan is an associate counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, where she focuses on low-wage Latina immigrant workers as part of the organization’s economic justice platform, legal support...
Colette Pichon Battle is the Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP), working on issues of global migration, community economic development, climate justice and...
