  Board Chair
Gerald Torres, Professor of Law
University of Texas at Austin
Mr. Torres is The H.O. Head Centennial Professor of Real Property Law at the University of Texas and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Justice Department and also served as Counsel to the Attorney General during the Clinton Administration. He and Professor Lani Guinier of Harvard Law School are the co-authors of the celebrated book The Miner's Canary. In 2004 Torres received the MALDEF Public Service Award.
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 Board President
Molly Munger, Co-Director
Advancement Project Los Angeles
Ms. Munger brings an extensive background of legal expertise to Advancement Project, including twenty years as a federal prosecutor and business litigator before becoming a staff attorney with the Los Angeles office of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
 Board Secretary/Treasurer
Stephen R. English, Co-Director
Advancement Project Los Angeles
Mr. English was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius for ten years helping to manage a 20-lawyer litigation department. A committed advocate for legal services for the poor, he served as board president of two major service providers - Public Counsel and the Inner City Law Center.
Jose (Joe) Alvarez, Northeast Reg. Dir.
American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO)
Mr. Alvarez is a high-level official with the AFL /CIO - a voluntary federation of 66 national and international labor unions. A long-time activist, Mr. Alvarez's roots are in textile worker organizing in the South.
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Harry Belafonte, President
Belafonte Enterprises, Inc.
Mr. Belafonte, internationally acclaimed entertainer and social activist, was a close confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He plays a major role in Advancement Project's Urban Peace Project.
Bonifacio Bonny Garcia, Partner
Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP
Mr. Garcia is an attorney specializing in labor and education law and in the negotiation and litigation of complex matters.
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 Penda D. Hair, Co-Director
Advancement Project Washington, D.C.
Ms. Hair heads the Washington office of Advancement Project. Throughout her career as an aggressive advocate for justice, Penda Hair has compiled a stellar track record of victories both in and out of court. She was one of the key leaders behind the national effort to protect affirmative action programs, helped develop crucial amendments to the Fair Housing Act, argued major civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and won the most extensive redistricting remedy ever imposed in a litigated voting rights suit. She also authored the Rockefeller Foundation's report on innovative civil rights strategies, Louder Than Words: Lawyers, Communities and the Struggle for Justice (2001). Hair is also the former Director of the Washington, D.C. office of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and has twenty years of civil rights experience. After graduation from Harvard Law School in 1978, she clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Wilfred Feinberg and former Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, and became a professor at Columbia University Law School. In 1998, the American Lawyer named Hair as one of the top public interest attorneys under age 45.
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 Michael Lawson, Partner
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Mr. Lawson is an attorney who works on all facets of executive compensation and employee benefits matters for his firm's clients.
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 Bill Lann Lee, Partner
Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson.
Mr. Lee is a 20-year civil rights veteran. He has served as Co-Director of the Los Angeles office of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund and as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Clinton Administration.
 Constance L. Rice, Co-Director
Advancement Project Los Angeles
Ms. Rice is renowned for her unconventional approaches to tackling problems of inequity and exclusion. Rice has received more than 50 major awards for her leadership of diverse coalitions and her non-traditional approaches to litigating major cases involving police misconduct, employment discrimination and fair public resource allocation. She was previously a Co-Director of the Los Angeles office of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund.
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Gerry Hudson
Executive Vice President, SEIU
Bruce Iwasaki, Partner
Lim, Ruger & Kim
Sheila Thomas
John "Jack" Walker
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