Julie Schwam Harris is a New Orleans native who was educated in Orleans Parish Public Schools and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Newcomb College of Tulane […]

There was once a small girl who always enjoyed trying new and challenging things that others feared impossible.  For four years, she worked as a legal […]

DA-elect Jody Owens has spent his entire career defending marginalized people from mass incarceration, private prisons, and the school-to-prison pipeline. He has fought tirelessly for civil […]

Jennifer Harding brings a deep passion for social justice and movement building to her role as Organizing Coordinator for VOTE. She began working with VOTE as […]

Joyce D James, served as the state-wide Director for the Ford Foundation’s Building Economic Security over a Lifetime Initiative (BESOL), under her leadership the statewide grassroots […]

Ms. Park is the executive director of Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO). Prior to joining IPNO, Ms. Park served as the deputy district defender of Orleans […]

Norris Henderson believes that “those who are closest to the problem are closest to the solution.” A former Soros Justice Fellow, he has had tremendous success […]

Alanah Odoms Hebert, a leading civil rights attorney, is the first African American woman to be named executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana. She is […]

Jacqueline Nash Grant has been a practicing attorney since 1983. Currently, she is a law professor at the Southern University Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where […]