Sherrilyn Ifill
Industry & Services
Protecting justice
& freedom
BALTIMORE, MD
As President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill has been protecting freedoms throughout her career. Since taking on the prestigious title in 2013, Ifill has expanded the organization’s engagement in urgent civil rights issues, and continued its decades-long history leading the fights against voter suppression, inequity in education and racial discrimination in application of the death penalty.
Ifill has led discussions in public and through media platforms at critical moments of national unrest following the killing of unarmed civilians by law enforcement officers, relying on forceful and fact-based analyses of complex issues to impact the road to social justice.
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NYU
NAACP
American Civil Liberties Union, Fellow
Legal Defense Fund
University of Maryland School of Law
Author, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century