Alec 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 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 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 MoreSavannah is an Investigative Fellow at the Civil Rights Corps. The core of Savannah’s work focuses on challenging money bail and accountability.
Read MoreCornelia joins Civil Rights Corps with twenty years of non-profit administrative and management experience.
Read MoreTehra joined Civil Rights Corps as policy counsel after 10 years as a family defense attorney, litigation and government affairs supervisor, and advocate.
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’s work focuses on using movement lawyering and the redistribution of power and resources to challenge policing 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 MoreAsha is the Digital Communications Associate at Civil Rights Corps. Her work includes running our social media pages, keeping the website updated, creating visuals to uplift the organization’s policy and litigation work, and leading the CRC blog.
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 holds a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. During law school, she served as the Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review, where she supervised the production of a special issue on prison abolition.
Read MoreCole is an Investigator working with several litigation teams at Civil Rights Corps. Prior to joining Civil Rights Corps, Cole worked as a Paralegal at the Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia.
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 MoreTara comes to Civil Rights Corps with a decade of litigation experience. She began her civil rights career as a Special Litigation attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she litigated cases in the D.C.
Read MoreBen is an Investigative Fellow at Civil Rights Corps, where he works on projects related to cash bail, private probation, and policing.
Read MoreNathan graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in African American Studies as well as minors in Latin American studies and Statistics and Machine Learning.
Read MoreColeman works as an investigator supporting litigation challenging the criminalization of poverty and creating space for decarceration. He supports pre-trial detention litigation, COVID-19 litigation, Private Probation litigation, Prosecutor Project litigation, and the Houston Policing project.
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 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.
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