Board of Directors and Advisory Board
Board of Directors*
- Elena Lavarreda, President
- Nora V. Demleitner, Director
Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
2016 Interview - Daniel Kopf, Treasurer
Reporter, Quartz
2016 interview - Bernadette Rabuy, Clerk
Trial Attorney, Homicide/Major Crime Defense Unit, New York County Defender Services
*Organizations for identification purposes only.
Advisory Board*
- Andrew Beveridge, Sociology, Queens College
- Alec Ewald, Political Science, University of Vermont
- Lucius Couloute, Sociology, Suffolk University
- Alex Friedmann
- Barbara Graves-Poller, NYC Law Department, Appellate Division
- Ruth Greenwood, Senior Redistricting Counsel, The Campaign Legal Center
- Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, plaintiff, Hayden v. Pataki
- Dale Ho, Director of Voting Rights Project, ACLU
- Daniel Jenkins, democracy activist, plaintiff, Longway v. Jefferson
- Eric Lotke, attorney, researcher and author
- Bruce Reilly, Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People's Movement
- Brigette Sarabi, Partnership for Safety and Justice
- Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
- Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, University of Michigan
- Janice Thompson
- Brenda Wright, Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
- Rebecca Young, Attorney
- Angela Wessels
In memory
- Nils Christie, Criminology, University of Oslo, Norway
- Jon E. Yount (1938 - 2012), organizer of Mixon v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
*Organizations for identification purposes only.
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