RAW LINKS: BLM, ACLU, NAACP 100% SOROS INFILTRATED

The More You Know:

In AMERICA, the year 2020 will be written as the transition from Organic & Lawful
social and political interactions within a Constitutional Republic, to a Deliberate, funded,
paid Public Display of Mythology orchestrated across all media. NONE of it is organic or
coincidental, it is ORCHESTRATED by the Democrat Party, and is 100% PRE-PAID:

The Complex Funding and Ideology of Black Lives Matter

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/11/the...

Jun 11, 2020 · George Soros’ Open Society Foundation – $33 million; Glossier cosmetics – $500,000;
Pokemon Company – owners of the popular card game and its characters, $100,000; Scopely – mobile
phone game developer, $1 million to BLM, NAACP, and Equal Justice Initiative**; Spanx –
undergarment manufacturer, $100,000 to groups including BLM

**Leaked Memo Reveals Soros Plan for Federally Controlled Police

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/08/30/...

Aug 30, 2016 · One of the nine members of the task force was Bryan Stevenson, identified on the final
task force report itself as “Founder and Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative**.” However, as the
Soros document highlights, Stevenson also serves on the …

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Board of Directors
Jerome Gray
Eva Ansley
Ophelia Dahl
Scott Douglas
Dr. Paul Farmer
Randy Hertz
George Kendall
Martha Morgan
Bryan Stevenson
Kim Taylor-Thompson
Kathy Vincent
Carlos Williams

“THE TEAM”: (bios below include Our “red flag” Emphasis in red)

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EJI Director Bryan Stevenson (center) argued at the Supreme Court in October 2018 on behalf of
Vernon Madison.

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We employ over two dozen lawyers, program staff working on racial justice, and highly skilled
managers, administrators, and staff who sustain operations.

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Elliot Spillers addresses hundreds of people who gathered in Omaha to remember the lynching of
Will Brown.

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Christina Cottrell and Miriam Ashley-Smoke are managers at our Legacy Museum and the
National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

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EJI’s development team is led by Director of Development Jackie Jones-Peace (far right).

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Sade Stevens (center), a recent college graduate in our Justice Fellowship program, with project
managers Breana Lamkin and Elliot Spillers.

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Bryan Stevenson

Executive Director

Bryan Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to
helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major
legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row
prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children
prosecuted as adults. He led the creation of EJI’s highly acclaimed cultural sites, the Legacy
Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in 2018. Mr.
Stevenson’s work has won him numerous awards, including over 40 honorary doctorates, the
MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Prize, and the ABA Medal, the American Bar Association’s
highest honor. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of
Government and the author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy, which
was recently adapted as a major motion picture.
Eva Ansley

Operations Director

Eva Ansley has coordinated and developed legal services for poor people and death row
prisoners in Alabama for over 30 years. She has been instrumental in developing institutional
assistance to indigent defendants at the Alabama Capital Representation Resource Center and the
Equal Justice Initiative since the inception of both organizations.

Randy Susskind

Deputy Director

Randy Susskind has been with EJI since graduating from Georgetown University Law Center in
1994. He also serves as adjunct faculty in the Equal Justice and Capital Defender Clinic at the
New York University School of Law(#LookUpAndrewWeissmann),. He previously worked as a
staff attorney at the Alabama Capital Representation Resource Center.

Jacqueline Jones-Peace

Senior Attorney, Director of Development

Jacqueline Jones-Peace was on the faculty at New York University School of

Law(#LookUpAndrewWeissmann), as Co-Associate Director of the Lawyering Program. Prior to
that, she was a Litigation Associate at Cleary Gottlieb in New York for several years after
clerking for U.S. District Judge John S. Martin in the Southern District of New York. She is a
1995 graduate of New York University School of Law.

Tatiana Bertsch

Senior Attorney

Tatiana Bertsch is a 2005 graduate of New York University School of Law. She has a B.A. in
geology from Smith College and before law school was assistant director of the Gender Studies
Program at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Prior to joining EJI, she was a
public defender in West Palm Beach, Florida, where she handled misdemeanor and felony trials
for five years before specializing in the investigation and presentation of mitigating evidence in
capital trials as a Mitigation Attorney in the Major Crimes division.

Alicia D’Addario

Senior Attorney

Alicia D’Addario is a 2005 graduate of New York University School of Law.

(#LookUpAndrewWeissmann), Prior to joining EJI, she clerked for Judge Rosemary Pooler on
the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She received her B.A. from Oberlin
College in 2002, where she majored in both Math and History.

Charlotte Morrison

Senior Attorney

Charlotte Morrison has been with EJI since 2001. She clerked for Judge Rosemary Barkett on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, is a former Rhodes Scholar with degrees
in Philosophy from Oxford University and the University of Montana, and graduated from New
York University School of Law in 2000(#LookUpAndrewWeissmann),.

Sia Sanneh

Senior Attorney

Sia Sanneh received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007. She has a Master’s degree in
teaching of social studies from Columbia University Teachers College and earned a B.A. in
history from Columbia University in 2001. After graduating law school, she was a Liman
Public Interest Fellow at Legal Action Center in New York, where she studied the collateral
consequences of school-based arrests.

Angie Setzer

Senior Attorney

Angie Setzer interned with EJI in the fall of 1998 and joined the staff after graduating from the
University of Michigan Law School in 1999. She currently manages some of EJI’s training
programs and has challenged capital convictions and death sentences across Alabama.

Jennifer Taylor

Senior Attorney

Jennifer Taylor is a 2010 graduate of Yale Law School, where she participated in the Prison
Legal Services Clinic and interned for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She has a B.A. in
Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity from Stanford University and a Master’s in
Journalism from Columbia University.

Aaryn Urell

Senior Attorney
Aaryn Urell has been with EJI since she graduated from New York University School of Law in
2001. She has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from American University and has
worked on human rights and conflict resolution in Ghana and South Africa.

Sonia Kapadia

Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives

Sonia Kapadia received a B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002
and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 2007. She has years of experience as a brand
manager for PepsiCo in North America and the UK and was a senior leader at a number of
successful startups including Gu Chocolate Desserts in London and Rent the Runway in New
York City. She brought her extensive experience as Chief Marketing Officer and CEO to EJI in
2017.

Tera DuVernay

Deputy Director of Museum and Memorial Operations

Tera DuVernay has an extensive background in management, research, recruiting, and customer
service. Most recently, she served as Chief Researcher for the Academy Award and Emmy
nominated documentary chronicling America’s mass criminalization epidemic, 13th. She
contributed research to the ESPN documentary on gender equality in sports entitled Venus Vs.
and the Henry Louis Gates PBS docuseries, Finding Your Roots. She previously held
management positions in the airline and health insurance industries.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Community Educator

Anthony Ray Hinton was falsely accused of committing two murders outside of Birmingham,
Alabama, in 1985. He was wrongly convicted and spent nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row
before he was exonerated and freed in April 2015. A deeply compelling speaker, he has become
a powerful advocate against the death penalty and speaks nationally about the urgent need for
criminal justice reform.

Amy Hulsey

Chief Financial Officer

Amy Hulsey is a certified public accountant with over 12 years of public accounting experience
in the financial field. A certified federal grant writer, she has worked on audits, grant reporting
requirements, and all aspects of financial management for nonprofit organizations. She has a
B.A. in Accounting and Computer Science from Huntingdon College, where she later was an
award-winning accounting instructor, and a Masters of Business Administration from Auburn
University in Montgomery. She joined EJI in 2018.
Kiara Boone

Deputy Director of Community Education

Kiara Boone earned a degree in Political Science from Davidson College in 2011 and a nonprofit
management executive certificate from Georgetown University in 2012. Prior to joining EJI, she
worked with the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, DC, and managed support
for community development in Florida for the Jessie Ball duPont Fund.

Josh Cannon

Project and Site Manager

Josh Cannon earned his Bachelor’s degree in 2010 from the Department of History Honors
Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where his honors thesis was published in
the Journal of Planning History. Prior to joining EJI in 2015, he taught preschool children and
coordinated projects for an industrial automation systems firm in Hoover, Alabama. He was also
a contributor to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute blog, The Struggle Continues.

Ayisha Abdur-Rahman

Operations Manager

Ayisha Abdur-Rahman has a B.A. in Secondary Education (English) from Indiana University
and a M.A. in Adult and Community Education from Ball State University. She brings a decade
of experience in human resources and program management. Before joining EJI in 2019, she was
the Program Manager for Revenue Cycle Services at Indiana University Health, where she led
on-boarding and training teams to improve new hire on-boarding, training, and leadership
development.

Ashley Adams

Staff Attorney

Ashley Adams earned a B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 2008 and graduated from the
University of Tennessee College of Law in 2011. Prior to joining EJI in 2017, she was Assistant
Public Defender and District Court Supervisor for the Tuscaloosa County Office of Public
Defender, represented indigent clients as a trial attorney with Jefferson County Public
Defender’s Community Law Office in Birmingham, Alabama, and conducted civil litigation as
an associate attorney at Gaines Gault Hendrix, P.C., in Birmingham.

Ryan Becker

Staff Attorney
Ryan Becker joined EJI after graduating in 2011 from New York University School of Law,
(#LookUpAndrewWeissmann),where he was in the Equal Justice and Capital Defender Clinic and
interned with the Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem and Cabrini Green Legal Aid in
Chicago. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a B.A. in Political
Science, and before that served active duty in the United States Marine Corps for four years.

John Dalton

Staff Attorney

John Dalton graduated in 2009 from Stanford Law School. Prior to joining EJI, he clerked for
Judge Pamela Ann Rymer on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and was
an associate at Davis, Polk & Wardwell. He has a B.A. in Political Science, History, and
Religion from Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee.

Mickey Hubbard

Staff Attorney

Mickey Hubbard graduated from Columbia Law School in 2014, where he interned at the Bronx
Defenders and the Southern Center for Human Rights. He has done extensive anti-poverty
work, improving school infrastructure in South Africa, increasing food bank access in rural
Vermont, and organizing to combat homelessness and provide services to people in financial
crisis in North Carolina. He has a B.A. in Political Science from Davidson College.

Rachel Judge

Staff Attorney

Rachel Judge graduated in 2013 from Harvard Law School, where she represented indigent
criminal defendants as a student attorney. She interned for the Public Defender Service for the
District of Columbia and the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta. She has a B.A. in
Sociology from Brown University and worked on behalf of death row inmates in California
before law school.

Alison Mollman

Staff Attorney

Alison Mollman graduated in 2012 from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law,
where she participated in the death penalty clinic and juvenile hall outreach. She interned for the
California Habeas Project and represented clients as a certified law student at the East Bay
Community Law Center. Prior to law school, she developed a support group for mothers
incarcerated at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women. She has a B.A. in Women’s Studies
from the University of Iowa.
Adam Murphy

Staff Attorney

Adam Murphy has a B.A. in History from Vassar College and a J.D. from New York
University School of Law, (#LookUpAndrewWeissmann), where he directed the Solitary
Confinement Project, helped create a bail fund for indigent defendants, and founded the Fair
Defense Project. Before joining EJI, he worked on Alabama capital cases in EJI’s Equal Justice
and Defender Clinic, and interned with the Federal Defenders of New York and the Bronx
Defenders.

Benjamin Schaefer

Staff Attorney

Benjamin Schaefer graduated in 2011 from New York University School of Law
(#LookUpAndrewWeissmann), where he participated in the Equal Justice and Capital Defender
Clinic and interned at the Orleans Public Defenders in Louisiana. He has a B.A. in History from
the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy
from Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He previously taught sixth grade social
studies in Henderson, North Carolina.

Maria Morrison

Senior Social Worker

Maria Morrison joined EJI in 2008. Ms. Morrison manages a range of clinical and therapeutic
services at EJI for incarcerated clients and formerly incarcerated people and their families.
Before joining EJI she provided services for several years to adults struggling with mental
illness, substance use, and homelessness as well as in a therapeutic wilderness program for
adolescents with trauma-related behavioral disorders. (#LookitUp)She has an M.S.W. from
the University of Alabama, an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College, and a B.A. in
English from the University of Montana.

Tim Lewis

Innovation Officer

Tim Lewis is an accomplished “connector” known for not only recognize potential opportunities
but also successfully connecting all the necessary resources – human, technical and financial. As
President and Founder of TALA Professional Services, he delivers profitable technologies to
businesses and industries globally as well as leading Connected Community Programs currently
improving economic opportunities for cities and their residents across the United States. He has
an Engineering B.S. from the University of Alabama.
Jonathan Kubakundimana

Program Manager

Jonathan Kubakundimana graduated from Furman University in 2016 with a B.A. in Political
Science. Prior to joining EJI, he interned for U.S. District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks in the
District of South Carolina, where he researched rehabilitative approaches to federal non-violent
drug offenders for the nation’s first federal drug court. As a survivor of the Genocide Against
Tutsis in Rwanda, he has helped lead initiatives in the United States and around the world raising
awareness of genocide and other crimes against humanity.

Tania Cordes

Communications Manager

Tania Cordes has a B.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from
the University of Baltimore. Prior to joining EJI in 2018, she worked on Strategic
Communications at the Open Society Foundations office in Baltimore, where she rose to
Communications Coordinator, and was Special Projects Manager for Strategic Communications
at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she led special projects and campaigns and
helped organize a multi-year public speaker series on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Caitlin McCaskey

Project Manager

Caitlin McCaskey has a B.A. in English from Westminister College in New Wilmington,
Pennsylvania. She joined EJI in 2019 with more than a decade of experience in managing
speakers, starting as a coordinator for Penguin Speakers Bureau in New York. She rose to Senior
Manager at HarperCollins Speakers Bureau and headed a department responsible for booking
over 200 events a year as Senior Agent Director for Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau.
Most recently, she managed Thought Leadership Programs for Consumer Reports.

Jose Vazquez

Digital Marketing Manager

Jose Vazquez earned a B.A. in Political Science from Hamilton College in 2015. As an associate
product marketing manager for community impact at Google Fiber, he created a website
centralizing the company’s philanthropy work and launched free super-fast Internet for public
housing residents. Before joining EJI in 2018, he was a brand marketing manager for social
impact at Google, where he coordinated worldwide Pride campaigns and LBGTQ+ outreach and
worked to promote EJI’s Lynching in America website and exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.
Miriam Ashley-Smoke

Program Assistant

Miriam Ashley-Smoke earned a B.A. in History from Auburn University in Montgomery in

1997. She has extensive experience in addressing client needs as a customer service agent for
Bellsouth and a reservation agent for Delta Airlines. Prior to joining EJI in 2018, she managed a
team of employees who provided assistance to medical providers and patients at Optum, a
division of United Healthcare Group.

Harold Brooks

Program Assistant

Harold Brooks has a B.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of South Alabama. He joined
EJI in 2019 with more than 25 years of experience in staffing and operations management. He
coordinated the shipment of over 5.5 million cartons annually for the Kay-Bee Toys Distribution
Center in Montgomery; oversaw quality containment, inspections, and audits for suppliers to
Hyundai, Kia, and Honda; managed operations and sales for USA Staffing Services; and
developed security policies for Presidential Security in Montgomery.

Christina Cottrell

Program Assistant

Christina Cottrell graduated cum laude with an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from
Amridge University in 2017. As a Loan Operations Specialist at Colonial Bank, she processed
payments, analyzed loan payments, and provided customer service for customers across the
country. She joined EJI in 2019 after more than 10 years with Optum Rx, where she was
responsible for ensuring that local and nationwide pharmacies had correct billing and medical
information needed to process pharmacy claims.

Victoria Dunn

Program Assistant

Victoria Dunn attended Troy University and has over 10 years of experience in management.
She worked with T-Mobile as an assistant store manager and was a travel agent for AAA
Alabama in Montgomery. Before joining EJI in 2019, she directed marketing, sales, customer
service, and human resources as a retail store manager for Spark Wireless in Montgomery.

Eugene Harris

Program Assistant
Eugene Harris is a Montgomery native who brings more than a decade of operations experience
to EJI. After obtaining an associates degree in secondary education from Beville State
Community College in 2001, he supervised shipping and receiving for West Elm, provided
technical support for AT&T, and worked as an IT specialist for Volkswagen. Prior to joining EJI
in 2018, he was an assistant site lead overseeing three external and all internal operations for
Kimura, a logistics company in South Carolina.

Vadante Haynes

Program Assistant

Vadante Haynes has an extensive background in medical training and medications. After
graduating from the Healthcare Training Institute as a Certified Nursing Assistant in 1988, she
studied Practical Nursing at Trenholm State Technical College and became a Certified
Pharmacy Technician. For over 13 years, she has trained and supervised customer service
representatives; monitored attendance, quality, and production; and managed disciplinary actions
and coaching as Customer Service Supervisor at Hospiscript/OptumRX in Montgomery. She
joined EJI in 2019.

Kaletha McKee

Program Assistant

Kaletha McKee has a B.S. in Business Administration from Troy University in Montgomery.
She has more than a decade of experience in customer service, marketing, communications, and
human resources. Before joining EJI’s staff in 2018, she worked for the Rosa Parks Museum in
Montgomery, Community Bank & Trust and Belk Department Store in Prattville, and Regions
Financial Corporation in Birmingham.

Bryan Cleare

Staff Assistant

Bryan Cleare has a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from Troy University,
where he worked as an administrative assistant and information technology clerk. He brings to
EJI valuable experience working in the Rosa Parks Museum and Library at Troy University and
in owning and operating his own small business. He joined the staff of EJI in 2018.

Gabrielle Daniels

Project Manager

Gabrielle Daniels has a B.S. in Biology from Iowa State University (2010) and a Master of
Public Health from the Yale School of Public Health (2016), where she focused on social
determinants of health and research-based program interventions. In 2017, she completed a
Masters-Fellowship from Duke Divinity School, concentrating in Theology, Medicine, and
Culture. Her research background has sought to address the needs of vulnerable people, from
homeless shelter populations in Connecticut to rural communities in Cambodia.

Breana Lamkin

Project Manager

Breana Lamkin earned a B.A. in Political Science from Howard University and is pursuing a
Master of Public Administration and Policy at American University. Before joining EJI in 2018,
she worked as a paralegal for attorneys representing clients with disabilities in Montgomery and
was an operations assistant for Mosaic Ventures, a venture capital firm in London. She also
conducted legal research, factual investigation, document management, and trial preparation as a
legal assistant for Carey Danis & Lowe in St. Louis.

Elliot Spillers

Project Manager

Elliot Spillers obtained a B.S. in Commerce and Business Management in 2016 from the
University of Alabama. As the second person of color in school history to be elected Student
Government Association President, he advocated for survivors of sexual assault and established
the inaugural position of Vice President for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. A YWCA Central
Alabama Social Justice AmeriCorps Member in Birmingham, he coordinated social justice
programs for high school students, investigating the role of heritage, culture, and racial identity
in adolescent development.

Elizabeth Woodson

Project Manager

Elizabeth Woodson has a B.S. in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University,
where she served as student body president and co-chair of the Provost’s Task Force on
Sexual Assault Policies and Practices. She taught incarcerated juveniles and assisted
investigators at the Office of the Public Defender in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She led research
and investment in social justice, innovation, global, arts, and local portfolios at the Emerson
Collective prior to joining EJI in 2018.

Katie Wu

Project Manager

Katie Wu has a B.A. in American History and Literature from Harvard College, where she
created a mock exhibit examining the influence of visual culture on how we remember racial
violence. As a curatorial intern at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, she
developed a public engagement program about women and African Americans in the abolitionist
movement. Before joining EJI in 2019, she worked on professional development programs for
K-12 educators in under-resourced communities at the National Academy of Advanced Teacher
Education.

Bryan G. Stevenson

Videographer

Bryan G. Stevenson studied at the University of Pennsylvania, joining church and community
endeavors, including Exodus To Excellence, Inc. where he combined his social service and
filmmaking skills before becoming a freelance filmmaker in New York City. He has nearly a
decade of experience writing, editing, and directing documentaries, narrative films, and
commercial projects for global brands that include Nike, the GAP, Puma, and Apple. After
interning at EJI in 2005, he joined our staff in 2018.

Chris Macklin

Paralegal

Chris Macklin graduated with a B.A. from Oberlin College and a PhD from the University of
York (UK). Before joining EJI in 2018 he was on the Music and Medieval Studies faculties of
Mercer University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, publishing research on
aspects of the use of music and community in times of social stress and teaching a variety of
undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He also worked on an Alabama capital postconviction
case as a legal assistant and researcher.

Nancy Hendrix

Deputy Director of Development

Nancy Hendrix is an Alabama native with extensive experience in fundraising, sales, marketing,
and communications. Prior to joining EJI in 2017, she expanded support across the country for
the Southern Poverty Law Center as Regional Advancement Director/Development Officer.
She earned a B.A. in International Studies and Marketing from the University of Alabama at
Birmingham, where she completed an international marketing internship in China.

Reneé Cleveland

Development Manager

Reneé Cleveland earned a Bachelor’s degree in Justice and Public Safety from Auburn
University at Montgomery in 2008. She planned curriculum and instructed students at Martin
Luther King Elementary School in Montgomery. A certified paralegal, she worked as a legal
secretary at Donohoe & Stapleton prior to joining EJI.
Lendria Glass

Development Manager

Lendria Glass earned a B.A. in Communication from Auburn University and a M.S. in Strategic
Communication from Troy University. A skilled communicator and relationship builder, she has
nearly 15 years of experience in communication, sales, fundraising, and development. Having
worked in the public and private sectors prior to joining EJI in 2019, she most recently served as
Development Director for the Arthritis Foundation in Montgomery.

Andrea Martin

Development Manager

Andrea Martin has a Bachelor’s degree in English Honors, Government & Liberal Arts Honors,
from the University of Texas at Austin, and earned a Master’s degree in Secondary Education
from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2011. She taught middle school students in St.
Louis as a Teach for America corps member and managed development campaigns for museums
and social service organizations at Daniller & Company in Austin, Texas, before joining EJI
in 2016.

James Warren

Executive Assistant

James Warren joined EJI in 2014. He previously was executive assistant to Dr. Anthony
Campolo at Eastern University and served as director of the event coordination department for
the International Mission Board in Richmond, Virginia. He has a Master’s degree in Religious
Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Bachelor’s degree in
Church Music from Oklahoma Baptist University.

Lori Taylor

Executive Assistant

Lori Taylor joined EJI in 2015. Prior to joining EJI, she founded, directed, and managed the
Bellevue Farmers Market, a nonprofit in Bellevue, Washington, where she advocated for
economic justice for farmers. She has previously worked with faith communities and facilitated
discussions on a range of social justice issues. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical
Theatre from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.

Lynda Black

Staff Assistant
Lynda Black came to EJI in 2008. She previously worked for over 20 years at the University of
Pittsburgh in the Academic Resource Center. She was responsible for Center operations and
research and performed a wide range of administrative tasks.

Amerika Blair

Operations Assistant

Amerika Blair has a B.S. in Sociology from Troy University in Montgomery and is pursuing a
Master of Public Administration and Public Management. She has several years of hotel and
management experience and has coordinated and led several community involvement activities
with a local nonprofit. She currently serves in the U.S. Air Force Reserves and was a human
resources training and development specialist for Wind Creek Hospitality before joining EJI in
2019.

Ramona Thornton

Staff Assistant

Ramona Thornton graduated from Huntingdon College in 1991, with a B.A. in Art. She brings a
wealth of administrative and operations assistance experience to EJI.

Sherry Hill

Staff Assistant

Sherry Hill joined EJI’s staff in 2016. She earned an Associate Degree in Professional
Transcription in 2004. She previously worked for over 15 years at Prince Institute, a private
college in Montgomery, Alabama, where she served as administrative assistant, enrollment
specialist, and ultimately, office manager.

Mary Vandiver

Staff Assistant

Mary Vandiver earned a B.F.A. in Art/Fashion Design Concentration from Howard University,
where she worked as the NextGen Coordinator for DC Fashion Week and worked to promote art
and fashion as a tool for social expression. She worked with the Ralph J. Bunche International
Affairs department at Howard to support international study abroad programs and helped to
increase minority participation in retail as a member of the Black Retail Action Group. She came
to EJI in 2018.

Mary Woods

Staff Assistant
Mary Woods joined EJI’s staff in 2016. A lifelong resident of Montgomery, she has years of
experience in customer service, including five years for the City of Montgomery’s Department
of Public Safety, where she managed requests for information and communications with clients
and the public.

Kristen Elijah

Bookkeeper

Kristen Elijah obtained a B.A. in History from Auburn University in 2006 and a J.D. from
Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in 2009. She organized and advocated for workers as an
external organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU #lookitUp) and
worked as an attorney for Parnell & Crum, P.A. Prior to joining EJI in 2018, she handled payroll,
accounts payable, invoicing, and other accounting and management responsibilities for Central
Alabama Fluid Power and Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC.

Paige Lindsey

Bookkeeper

Paige Lindsey earned a B.S.B.A. in Finance and Economics from Auburn University,
Montgomery, Alabama, and has more than a decade of experience as a bookkeeper and computer
software trainer. Prior to joining EJI in 2015, she served as chief operating officer for Admiral
Movers, Inc., in Montgomery.

Tisha Williams

Facilities

Tisha Williams has more than a decade of experience in the manufacturing and sanitation
industries. Prior to joining EJI, she worked at Baptist Medical Center East and ABM in
Montgomery, Alabama. A native of Montgomery, she joined the staff of EJI in 2018.

Greg Dixon

Front Desk Security Officer

Greg Dixon is a war veteran with over 22 years experience in law enforcement. He attended
Auburn University at Montgomery before becoming a sergeant in the United States Marine
Corps. Following his distinguished military career, he became a police officer for the City of
Montgomery and was honored with multiple awards. He retired from the police department in
2019 prior to joining EJI.
Greg Parker

Facilities Manager

Greg Parker is a licensed home builder and master carpenter with over two decades of
experience in residential and commercial construction. Prior to joining EJI in 2017, he was
responsible for the maintenance and operation of 32 dorm buildings housing 4500 students as
Maintenance Supervisor of Student Housing at Auburn University, where he also took Master’s
courses in Building Science and Public Administration. He has a B.S. in Human Resource
Management from Faulkner University.

Bruce Tolerson

Facilities Maintenance Technician

Bruce Tolerson has over 30 years of experience maintaining facilities that total over a million
square feet. He attended Auburn University at Montgomery and Troy University, and starting in
1986, he was responsible for maintaining generators, dock levelers, electrical systems, overhead
doors, refrigeration, fire systems, HVAC, conveyor systems, fuel bays, and computer
components at the C&S Warehouse, Bi Low Warehouse, and Winn Dixie Warehouse in
Montgomery. He joined EJI in 2018.

Matt Murray

Data Entry Specialist

Matt Murray obtained a Master’s degree in Information Systems Management from Auburn
University at Montgomery in 2016 and a Bachelor’s in Communication Studies and Classical
Guitar Performance from Huntingdon College in 2014. Prior to joining EJI in 2017, he worked
on the installation and upkeep of IT components for WSFA News in Montgomery and helped
build a television station from the ground up at a local school.

Cathleen Price

Cooperating Senior Attorney

Cathleen Price is a 1996 graduate of Harvard Law School and a former law clerk of Justice Fred
Banks on the Mississippi Supreme Court. She is a 1999 National Association for Public Interest
Law (NAPIL) Equal Justice Fellow and has coordinated complex litigation at EJI for several
years.

Sofia McDonald

Law Fellow
Sofia McDonald is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where she was in the
Equal Justice and Capital Defender Clinic, worked for the Policing Project, and interned for the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Before law school, she was a special education teacher in Chicago
with Teach for America. She worked on the appeal of a client on death row in Alabama as a
litigation associate at Ropes & Gray LLP prior to joining EJI in 2019.

Heather Richard

Law Fellow

Heather Richard earned a B.A. in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought and a B.A. in Spanish
from Amherst College and received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was in the
Capital Punishment and Ethics Bureau clinics, worked with New Haven Legal Assistance, and
interned for the ACLU Racial Justice Program. She clerked for the Hon. William J. Kayatta Jr.
on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit before joining EJI in 2019.

Natalie Unger

Law Fellow

Natalie Unger earned a B.A. in Communications from Florida State University and a J.D. from
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she worked on Texas capital cases with the Center
for Capital Defense, clerked for Nashville Defenders in Tennessee, and studied racial bias in
Illinois’s juvenile justice system for the Children and Family Justice Center. She has also done
writing, editing, social marketing, and management for several organizations and media
outlets. She joined EJI in 2019.

Kayla Vinson

Law Fellow

Kayla Vinson has a B.A. in Sociology and African American Studies from Yale University.
After earning an M.S.Ed from the University of Pennsylvania, she was a public school teacher.
She has an M.P.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from New York University School of
Law, where she advocated for Native students’ educational rights in the Racial Justice Clinic and
researched school-police relations and minority voter dilution as a term-time intern for the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She joined EJI in 2019.

Jesse Chung

Justice Fellow

Jesse Chung earned a B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies in 2018 from Bowdoin
College, where he coordinated operations for the college’s outdoors club, its largest student
organization, and tutored peers as a writing assistant in the Writing Workshop. He served as a
courthouse assistance program volunteer for the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Maine,
mentored middle school boys in a leadership-building program, and conducted research on
prison privatization and the history of indigent defense services in the United States.

Michaela Clarke

Justice Fellow

Michaela Clarke has a B.A. in African and Black Diaspora Studies and Peace, Justice, and
Conflict Studies from DePaul University, where she facilitated restorative justice workshops and
participated in the Inside Out Prison Exchange program with men incarcerated at Stateville
Prison. Active in community service and programming for multicultural student groups at
DePaul, she worked as a youth counselor at the Gary Comer Youth Center before joining EJI
in 2020.

Jonathan Gibson

Justice Fellow

Jonathan Gibson has a B.A. in American Studies and Computer Science from Georgetown
University, where he designed data visualizations for the Georgetown Slavery Archive and
researched and competed as a member of the nationally award-winning Georgetown Policy
Debate Team. He built web-based legal management software for GibsonFirm in Lubbock,
Texas, and worked with grassroots Christian organizations in Kenya to promote community
development and social empowerment as an intern for Hamwenga prior to joining EJI in
2019.

Sumita Rajpurohit

Justice Fellow

Sumita Rajpurohit has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and French from Johns Hopkins
University, where she helped formerly incarcerated adults prepare for undergraduate studies,
taught after-school science lessons for Baltimore Public School students, and founded the
Women of Mechanical Engineering Network. Before joining EJI in 2019, she managed a design
project for the Space Telescope Science Institute, designed a new model for studying traumatic
brain injury, and co-authored two published research articles.

Trey Walk

Justice Fellow

Trey Walk has a B.A. in History from Duke University, where he worked with the Community
Empowerment Fund to help homeless and low-income residents secure housing, build credit, and
apply for jobs. He also worked on affordable housing and homelessness as an intern for the
Northside Neighborhood Initiative and the National Low Income Housing Coalition,
 researched the history of racial inequality in housing policy in Durham, and worked on voting
rights as a community organizer in South Carolina, before joining EJI in 2019.

Keiana West

Justice Fellow

Keiana West earned a B.A. in Psychology from Williams College, where she conducted research
on the school-to-prison pipeline, co-developed a curriculum for a juvenile court alternative
sentencing program, and co-directed the Justice League Summer Program, a social justice
leadership and mentoring program for middle school students. She evaluated a diversion
program for low-risk offenders in South Africa, where as a Princeton in Africa Fellow, she
worked as a Monitoring & Evaluation Fellow prior to joining EJI in 2020.

Catherine Coleman-Flowers

Rural Development Manager

Catherine Coleman-Flowers is a native of Lowndes County, Alabama. She taught high school in
Detroit, Michigan, and Washington, D.C. before returning home to advocate for poor people in
Alabama’s Black Belt. She is the founder and director of the Alabama Center for Rural
Enterprise and joined EJI in summer 2008 as part of EJI’s Race and Poverty initiative.

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1. ACLU Awarded $50 Million by Open Society Foundations to ...

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-awarded...
 Nov 07, 2014 · NEW YORK – The Open Society Foundations today awarded a grant of $50 million to
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in support of its nationwide campaign to end mass
incarceration. The campaign seeks to reform criminal justice policies that have increased incarceration
rates dramatically during a period of declining crime –and exacerbated racial disparities.
2. ACLU Actively Assisting With Soros-Driven Protest Org ...
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/aclu-actively...
A February 6th, 2017 article from Zerohedge  cited research from LifeZette and the Capital Research
Center  indicating that Soros’s Open Society Institute has sunk over $35 million into the ACLU alone
and millions more to other liberal organizations directly involved in filing lawsuits against various policies
of Donald Trump all around the country.

NAACP:
Pulling The Curtain Back On The NAACP - Freedom Outpost
https://freedomoutpost.com/pulling-curtain-back-naacp

Mar 06, 2018 · In March 2013, the billionaire philanthropist George Soros pledged to give, through his
Open Society Foundations, $1 million to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This was the
largest grant, which that organization had received from a named donor in recent decades.

1. Left Republic: Where the Hell is the ACLU, NAACP, and NOW?
https://theleftrepublic.blogspot.com/2016/11/where...
Nov 22, 2016 · Where the Hell is the ACLU, NAACP, and NOW? I'm not feeling particularly forgiving of as
of late. This sentiment especially holds true for the civil rights groups whose coffers have been enriched
by the very people they are failing to protect.
2. The Dark Emperor: George Soros - American Liberty Report
https://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/the-dark-emperor-george-soros
The Dark Emperor: George Soros When one looks at lists of the largest donors to global political causes
in the last 15 to 20 years, one name continues to pop up again and again, especially when it comes to
large contributions to progressive and Democratic organizations and political action committees: George

The FUnDED 2020 Democrat Party Leaders’ PASSION PLAY is designed to beta-test
& prepare for an Overthrow of the Elected Sitting Federal Government of the United
States of America. Shootings, police murders, corona Wuhan Virus pandemics,
Domestic Terrorism in the name of Peaceful Constitutional Demonstrations Kneeling
murders and penance, Historic Monument destruction, ALL ORCHESTRATED via
Hijack by the Democrats –NOT a “Radical Left” contingent but the Party Itself
#WalkAway