Danielle is the CEO of Civil Rights Corps. Prior to joining CRC Danielle was the Executive Director of the Million Dollar Hoods project and the Director of Research and Programs at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.
Read MoreAlec is the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps. Before founding Civil Rights Corps, Alec was a civil rights lawyer and public defender.
Read MoreClaudia is the Chief Operating Officer for Civil Rights Corps. Prior to her arrival at CRC, she was the Chief Operating Officer for the NAACP.
Read MoreRyan joined Civil Rights Corps after a decade of litigating civil rights cases at both Relman, Dane & Colfax, PLLC in Washington, D.C. and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) in New York.
Read MoreElizabeth Rossi investigates and litigates cases challenging money bail, debtors' prisons, and private probation. She is a central part of the team that won a preliminary injunction striking down the money bail system in Harris County, Texas, in the first lawsuit to subject a wealth-based pretrial system to the scrutiny of actual evidence in open court.
Read MoreThea is the Director of Policy for Civil Rights Corps. In this role, she oversees a range of initiatives that include policy changes.
Read MoreJeff joined Civil Rights Corps after eight years as a Trial Attorney and Supervising Attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. While there, Jeff represented juveniles and adults charged with serious crimes, including complex homicides.
Read MoreBina Ahmad is a social justice attorney, making the choice to become a lawyer to help dismantle and push back against the crushing might of the government.
Read MoreBrittany leads the Police Abuse Project at Civil Rights Corps. Her work aims to hold police accountable for abusive conduct while building shared community and power among advocates and survivors.
Read MoreCornelia joins Civil Rights Corps with twenty years of non-profit administrative and management experience.
Read MoreCody is an attorney with Civil Rights Corps, where his work focuses on litigation and advocacy challenging money bail, private probation, and police abuse. Prior to joining CRC, Cody was an Equal Justice Works Fellow with the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) in Atlanta, Georgia.
Read MoreKiah uses movement lawyering to challenge police abuse and the criminalization of poverty.
Read MoreQuinita is the Senior Operations Coordinator for Civil Rights Corps. As a formerly incarcerated person, she has first-hand experience dealing with America's criminal legal system.
Read MoreCarson is a staff attorney at Civil Rights Corps where raises systemic challenges to the criminalization of poverty. She is currently challenging wealth-based pretrial detention in California and North Carolina.
Read MoreKatherine’s work focuses on litigation challenging the criminalization of poverty, particularly debtor’s prisons and wealth-based pretrial detention. Katherine coordinates CRC’s bail reform efforts in several states across the country including California
Read MoreEllora litigates in support of movements to abolish police, prosecutors, and the prison industrial complex. Ellora litigates in support of movements to abolish police, prosecutors, and the prison industrial complex. She is currently working on cases challenging pretrial detention in Maryland and Tennessee, and police abuse in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreMarco works to stop state and local governments (and the occasional private company) from jailing people for lack of money. He spends a lot of time trying to convince federal courts that they can do something about this.
Read MoreLeo is a Senior Attorney at Civil Rights Corps whose work focuses on dismantling systems that criminalize poverty and unjustly target people of color.
Read MoreCheryl is the Director of Storytelling for Civil Rights Corps. In collaboration with all CRC departments, Cheryl and the Storytelling team guide the organization’s narrative strategies and campaigns helping to highlight the human toll the criminal system takes on our communities.
Read MoreSalil is an attorney at Civil Rights Corps who litigates money bail and other abuses in the criminal punishment system. His work includes challenging pretrial detention in California, where he is based.
Read MoreSumayya joined Civil Rights Corps after working at the Southern Poverty Law Center in her home state of Florida.
Read MorePeter is the Managing Attorney of the Prosecutorial Accountability Project. His work is focused on designing and implementing creative approaches to curb the problem of prosecutorial misconduct.
Read MorePriyanka works as an investigative fellow in Civil Rights Corps, assisting attorneys on several cases, including bail litigation in Texas and pretrial diversion in Arizona.
Read MoreSam supports the policy team in designing and advocating for policies that decarcerate the U.S. criminal-legal system, deconstruct systemic racism, and support movement organizers.
Read MoreMicah is a litigation support fellow at Civil Rights Corps where she works on projects challenging money bail and exposing police abuse.
Read MoreJulia is a Litigation Support Fellow at Civil Rights Corps, where she works on projects challenging money bail, prosecutorial misconduct, and the exploitation of incarcerated people and their loved ones.
Read MoreShirley LaVarco is a Legal Fellow at Civil Rights Corps. Her work at CRC is currently focused on wealth-based detention and police-perpetrated violence.
Read MoreLamont is the Operations Fellow at Civil Rights Corps. Before joining CRC, Lamont completed the training program at BreakFree Education
Read MoreTashawn is a Senior Investigator/Paralegal at Civil Rights Corps, where she works on projects challenging money bail and policing.
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