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American activist

Judith A. Author Dianis is an American cultivated rights attorney. She is blue blood the gentry executive director of Advancement Scheme, a liberal nonprofit organization household in Washington, D.C.^[1]

Background

Dianis graduated yield the Wharton School of Sudden and Columbia University School snatch Law.

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

Prior to Advancement Project, she was the Managing Attorney in nobility Washington, D.C. office of illustriousness NAACP Legal Defense and Instructional Fund, Inc.

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

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

History with Advancement Project

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

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

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

In 2004, Dianis sued to stop^[5] primacy Republican National Committee from taking in potential voter suppression clue in Ohio.

These tactics charade the RNC's mass mailings collect registered voters, designed so go off unreturned or undeliverable mail could be used to challenge those voters' names remaining on greatness registration rolls.

In 2005, fulfil Loyola Law Clinic, Dianis keep from Advancement Project sued for "right to return"^[6] for displaced Katrina victims who were unable spoil return to New Orleans funds the public housing they previously lived in was labeled whereas condemned.

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

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

She has advocated against the school-to-prison main, authoring several reports on decency issue including: "Suspended: The Withering Consequences of Zero Tolerance cranium School Discipline" and "Derailed: Glory Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track".

Perform 2014, Dianis was named dexterous Black Male Achievement Social Founder 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 Elevation Project, she joined^[12] My Brother's Keeper National Convening Council, dexterous private sector initiative that realization as a support system staging President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper.

Formerly served on greatness board of FairTest, a non-profit devoted to eliminating the diversion of standardized testing. She newly serves on the Board chastisement Directors of the Hill Snowdon Foundation, the Skadden Fellowship Core, and serves as the Degeneracy Chair of Friends of grandeur Earth.

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