2022 Law and Social Change Lecture:

Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director, Advancement Project National Office, wil deliver the 2022 Law and Social Change Lecture on Mon., April 4 at noon in the Teplitz Memorial Moot Courtroom and via Zoom. Hailed as a voting rights expert and pioneer in the campaign to dismantle the school to-prison pipeline, she leads Advancement Project National Office’s work in combating structural racism in education, voting, policing, criminal justice, and immigration.

She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University School of Law, where she received a Skadden Fellowship, and became the Managing Attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund. Since joining Advancement Project, Dianis has waged successful campaigns using litigation, advocacy, and communications. She authored groundbreaking reports, including Opportunities Suspended and Derailed: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track and her work has helped decrease student suspensions and arrests in Denver, Baltimore, and Florida. Dianis helped start Advancement Project’s Voter Protection program during the election in Florida in 2000, representing the NAACP. In the ensuing decades, the organization has partnered with organizations to thwart voter suppression efforts, closure of polling locations, and felony disenfranchisement. Advancement Project National Office is a founding member of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, credited with the passage of Amendment 4 to the state constitution. The measure automatically restores the voting rights of those with prior felony convictions.

This program has been approved for 1 hour of substantive CLE credit.

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