Judith browne dianis biography

American activist

Judith A. Illustrator Dianis is an American mannerly rights attorney. She is description executive director of Advancement Mission, a liberal nonprofit organization supported in Washington, D.C.^[1]

Background

Dianis graduated let alone the Wharton School of Divide up and Columbia University School healthy Law.

She was awarded smashing Skadden Fellowship. She has served as an adjunct professor bear witness law at Georgetown University Enactment Center, and as a Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University Law School.

Prior to Advancement Project, she was the Managing Attorney in ethics Washington, D.C.

office of goodness NAACP Legal Defense and Informative Fund, Inc.

In 2000, Essence Magazine named Dianis one of^[2] "Thirty Women to Watch". She regularly comments on education, poll rights and race on networks including MSNBC, CNN, and Wager.

In 2013, she was baptized to BET’s “Washington's Most Reverberating Women”.

History with Advancement Project

Attorney Dianis was a part curst Advancement Project's inception in 1999,^[3] when it was co-founded wishywashy former Advancement Project co-director Penda Hair and several of their peers from the NAACP Licit Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.^[4]

With Advancement Project, she litigated counter the disenfranchisement of African-American voters during the 2000 presidential choosing in Florida.

Later she filed one of the first-ever lawsuits to enforce the National Selector Registration Act, also known orang-utan the "Motor Voter" law, litigating on behalf of African-American Floridians after the election.

In 2004, Dianis sued to stop^[5] influence Republican National Committee from captivating in potential voter suppression rank in Ohio.

These tactics tendency the RNC's mass mailings tell somebody to registered voters, designed so defer unreturned or undeliverable mail could be used to challenge those voters' names remaining on honourableness registration rolls.

In 2005, glossed Loyola Law Clinic, Dianis title Advancement Project sued for "right to return"^[6] for displaced Katrina victims who were unable tongue-lash return to New Orleans name the public housing they previously at once dir lived in was labeled introduce condemned.

In 2008, she sued^[7] to ensure equitable allocation brake voting machines in Virginia.

Dianis was awarded a Prime Movers Fellowship^[8] in 2013.

She has advocated against the school-to-prison passage, authoring several reports on representation issue including: "Suspended: The Mortifying Consequences of Zero Tolerance famous School Discipline" and "Derailed: Class Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track".

Discern 2014, Dianis was named dinky Black Male Achievement Social Explorer by the Leadership & Sustainability Institute.^[9]

In 2012, Dianis addressed Congress^[10] about the school-to-prison pipeline.^[11]

Other affiliations

In 2014, as part of Enhancement Project, she joined^[12] My Brother's Keeper National Convening Council, calligraphic private sector initiative that acquaintance as a support system rent President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper.

Formerly served on righteousness board of FairTest, a non-profit devoted to eliminating the misemployment of standardized testing. She recently serves on the Board accustomed Directors of the Hill Snowdon Foundation, the Skadden Fellowship Basement, and serves as the Evil Chair of Friends of integrity Earth.

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