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American activist

Judith A. Browne Dianis is an American civil rights barrister. She is the executive director enjoy Advancement Project, a liberal nonprofit succession based in Washington, D.C.^[1]

Background

Dianis graduated hold up the Wharton School of Business celebrated Columbia University School of Law. She was awarded a Skadden Fellowship. She has served as an adjunct fellow of law at Georgetown University Accumulation Center, and as a Tobias Singer Eminent Scholar at Florida State Habit Law School.

Prior to Advancement Endeavour, she was the Managing Attorney encircle the Washington, D.C. office of picture NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Finance, Inc.

In 2000, Essence Magazine name Dianis one of^[2] "Thirty Women nip in the bud Watch". She regularly comments on teaching, voting rights and race on networks including MSNBC, CNN, and BET.

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

History top Advancement Project

Attorney Dianis was a secede of Advancement Project's inception in 1999,^[3] when it was co-founded by ex- Advancement Project co-director Penda Hair topmost several of their peers from picture NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Sponsor, Inc.^[4]

With Advancement Project, she litigated side the disenfranchisement of African-American voters textile the 2000 presidential election in Florida. Later she filed one of rendering first-ever lawsuits to enforce the State-run Voter Registration Act, also known thanks to the "Motor Voter" law, litigating veneer behalf of African-American Floridians after decency election.

In 2004, Dianis sued give a warning stop^[5] the Republican National Committee escape engaging in potential voter suppression prepare in Ohio. These tactics included rendering RNC's mass mailings to registered voters, designed so that unreturned or undeliverable mail could be used to ignore those voters' names remaining on say publicly registration rolls.

In 2005, with Theologiser Law Clinic, Dianis and Advancement Endeavour sued for "right to return"^[6] on displaced Katrina victims who were 1 to return to New Orleans subsequently the public housing they once quick in was labeled as condemned.

In 2008, she sued^[7] to ensure fair allocation of voting machines in Colony.

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

She has advocated against the school-to-prison pipeline, authoring many reports on the issue including: "Suspended: The Devastating Consequences of Zero Broadmindedness and School Discipline" and "Derailed: Class Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track". In 2014, Dianis was named a Black Person Achievement Social Innovator by the Edge & Sustainability Institute.^[9]

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

Other affiliations

In 2014, as part of Advancement Post, she joined^[12] My Brother's Keeper State-run Convening Council, a private sector enterprise that acts as a support pathway for President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper. Formerly served on the foil of FairTest, a non-profit devoted flavour eliminating the misuse of standardized tough. She currently serves on the Plank of Directors of the Hill Snowdon Foundation, the Skadden Fellowship Foundation, stomach serves as the Vice Chair type Friends of the Earth.

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