What is it like to be a racial justice law yer in the current climate? Join OPIA for a community discussion with Wasserstein Fellow Kevin Jason\, Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund\ , to learn more about how the field of racial justice impact litigation has changed throughout his career\, especially with the current retrenchment o f civil rights and hostility to equity efforts. Kevin will discuss the day- to-day experience of legal advocacy\, challenges encountered since he began this work\, and the different roles attorneys can play in the pursuit of r acial justice.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP below! Open to the HLS com munity.
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Kevin E. Jason is D eputy Director of Strategic Initiatives at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educ ational Fund\, Inc. (“LDF”). He leads and supervises racial justice litigat ion and other forms of advocacy in various areas of law. He has argued scho ol desegregation and qualified immunity cases before several federal courts of appeals. He is currently leading a putative class action challenging th e NYPD’s racially discriminatory anti-gang enforcement policies and practic es. Generally\, his docket focuses on police practices and educational equi ty matters that combine impact litigation with policymaking\, community org anizing\, and strategic communications. Kevin is currently an Adjunct Profe ssor with the Equality and Justice Clinic at CUNY School of Law and was rec ently a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School where he co-taught the exper iential course\, Racial Justice. Before joining LDF\, Kevin worked at the A CLU of New York (New York Civil Liberties Union). Immediately after law sch ool\, Kevin served as a law clerk to the Hon. Steven M. Gold of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (retired) and to the Hon. Andrew L. Carter\, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Souther n District of New York. Kevin received his J.D. from Stanford Law School. H e also earned an M.A. in Public Policy from Stanford University and a B.A. from Columbia University.
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