Board of Directors
Stephen R. English, Esq.
Stephen English was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius for twelve years, helping to manage a 20-lawyer litigation department. A committed advocate for legal services for the poor, he has served as board president of two major service providers-Public Counsel and the Inner City Law Center-and as President of the Los...
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Molly Munger, Esq.
Molly Munger brings an extensive background of legal expertise to Advancement Project, including twenty years as a federal prosecutor and business litigator. Before becoming a staff attorney with the Los Angeles office of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund in 1994, she was a partner in the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &...
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Gerald Torres, Esq.
University of Texas
Mr. Torres is Professor of Law at the University of Texas and former Senior Attorney in the Justice Department during the Clinton Administration.
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Joe Alvarez
Partner, Alvarez Porter Group
Joe Alvarez brings a lifetime of experience on the front lines of the labor movement fighting for racial justice, civil rights, peace, workers’ and immigrants’ rights. In 2005, he left his position with labor and became a founding partner of the Alvarez Porter Group, an organization development consulting firm that specializes in work with...
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Harry Belafonte
Belafonte Enterprises, Inc.
Mr. Belafonte, internationally acclaimed entertainer and social activist, was a close confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He plays a major role in Advancement Project's Urban Peace Project.
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Bonifacio (Bonny) Garcia, Esq.
Founding Partner, Garcia Calderón Ruíz, LLP
Mr. Garcia is an attorney specializing in labor and education law and in the negotiation and litigation of complex matters.
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Penda D. Hair, Esq.
A staunch advocate of civil rights, Penda Hair has spent the last 25 years defending the rights of those unjustly discriminated against. Former director of the Washington, DC, office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Hair co-founded Advancement Project to serve as an innovative racial justice organization that would strengthen...
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Gerry Hudson
Executive Vice President, SEIU
Gerry Hudson came to SEIU in 1978 from the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale, N.Y., where he was a member of SEIU Local 144. Elected as executive vice president for the former-District 1199 in 1989, Hudson spent more than a dozen
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Bruce Iwasaki
Partner, Lim, Ruger & Kim
Bruce Iwasaki is a senior partner in the litigation group, where he specializes in commercial and tort litigation. Prior to joining Lim Ruger, Mr. Iwasaki handled complex business litigation at a major Los Angeles firm for nine years. Mr. Iwasaki has
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Michael Lawson, Esq.
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Mr. Lawson is an attorney who works on all facets of executive compensation and employee benefits matters.
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Bill Lann Lee, Esq.
Partner, Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson
Mr. Lee is a 20-year civil rights veteran. He has served as Co-Director of the Los Angeles office of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., and as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Clinton Administration.
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Barrett S. Litt
Partner, Litt, Estuar, Harrison & Kitson, LLP
Barrett S. Litt is a founding partner of Litt & Stormer, Litt & Marquez, Litt & Associates, and now Litt, Estuar & Kitson, LLP. A 1969 graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Barry began his career as a criminal defense attorney, and worked on the Pentagon Papers and Chicago Conspiracy trials. He has...
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Pam Martinez
Founding Member and Co-Director, Padres & Jovenes Unidos
Pam Martinez is a founding member and Co-Director of Padres & Jovenes Unidos. Pam has been involved in organizing for racial justice and equality for working class people over the last forty years. Her passion has been reflected in organizing for democratic unions, supporting the United Farmworkrs, organizing against unjust wars and for the...
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Connie Rice, Esq.
Connie Rice is renowned for her unconventional approaches to tackling problems of inequity and exclusion. For example, she has teamed up with conservatives on education issues and the Los Angeles Police Department to support the Watts gang truce. Rice has received more than 50 major awards for her leadership of diverse coalitions, and her non-...
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Sheila Thomas
Sheila Thomas is a plaintiff's employment attorney with her own practice in Oakland, California. Ms. Thomas has experience litigating both class and individual gender and race employment discrimination cases. Currently, Ms. Thomas is one of the attorneys litigating Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., a nationwide gender discrimination class action...
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Jack Walker
Zeughauser Group
Jack Walker joined Zeughauser Group to counsel law firm leaders on strategic planning and growth initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions, and to advise them about management and leadership best practices. More than three
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