Paulette Brown, Esq.
CHAIR
Founder & Principal MindSetPower LLC; Past President American Bar Association & National Bar Association
Robin A. Lenhardt, Esq.
VICE CHAIR
Professor, Georgetown Law Center
Justin White
SECRETARY
Founder & CEO @ LTMA Capital
Ryan P. Haygood, Esq.
PRESIDENT & CEO
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
Kenneth Y. Tanji
TREASURER
Executive Vice President and CFO, Prudential Financial, Inc.
Rev. Timothy Adkins-Jones, Ph.D.
Pastor, Bethany Baptist Church, Newark
Tanuja M. Dehne, Esq.
Past President and CEO Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Diana DeJesus-Medina
Chief of External Strategy and Affairs, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
Douglas S. Eakeley, Esq.
Alan V. Lowenstein Professor of Corporate and Business Law, Rutgers University School of Law
Dr. Antoinette Ellis-Williams, Ph.D.
Professor, Women’s & Gender Studies, New Jersey City University
John J. Farmer, Jr., Esq.
Director of Eagleton Institute of Politics, University Professor of Law, Justice Alan B. Handler Scholar, Director of Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience at Rutgers University
Paul J. Fishman, Esq.
Partner, Arnold & Porter
Jerome C. Harris, Jr.
President, The Harris Organization, LLC
Dr. John H. Lowenstein, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, New York University
James McQueeny
Communications, Government Affairs Adviser
Patricia Nachtigal, Esq.
Formerly Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd.
Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard, Esq.
Senior Vice President of Business Affairs, ABC News
Christina Swarns, Esq.
Executive Director, Innocence Project
Darrell K. Terry, Sr.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey
Martin Vergara II
Managing Director Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Morgan Stanley
The Honorable Dickinson R. Debevoise (Trustee Emeritus)*
Former Senior Judge, US District Court, District of New Jersey
Zulima V. Farber (Trustee Emerita)
Former New Jersey Attorney General
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach (Trustee Emeritus)*
Former US Attorney General
Roger A. Lowenstein (Emeritus)
Founder, Los Angeles Leadership Academy
Theodore V. Wells, Jr. (Emeritus)
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Nina Wells (Emeritus)
Former New Jersey Secretary of State
*In Memoriam
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice seeks dedicated, highly qualified law and/or graduate students for summer and term internships. Term internships are part-time. Please submit inquiries or applications (comprised of a cover letter, resume, transcript (official or unofficial), three references, and a writing sample) to recruitment@njisj.org. Please indicate if you want to intern for course credit.
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (the “Institute”) is looking for a passionate, creative, and dynamic team player dedicated to racial and social justice to serve as an Associate Counsel in our Democracy & Justice pillar. The Associate Counsel will conduct legal research and writing, policy analysis, legal and legislative advocacy, and community-driven advocacy campaigns to help expand racial and social justice in New Jersey at a critical time in our history.
The Institute’s Democracy & Justice pillar advocates for a progressive, policy-driven agenda to create and protect an inclusive and multiracial democracy without barriers in New Jersey; to provide a space for robust discussion with policy makers and elected officials, focused on racial and social justice issues; and to engage with, prepare, and educate voters to confidently participate in the democratic process.
Over the coming years, the pillar will work on many initiatives to expand and build an inclusive, multiracial democracy in New Jersey, including, but not limited to: ensuring that voters, and especially voters of color, have equal access to a fair ballot; expanding the right to vote in elections, including to 16 and 17 year olds and those who are incarcerated; reducing barriers to participation, such as arbitrary voter registration deadlines, so that all eligible voters are able to cast a ballot; increasing civic education and engagement around voting and democracy; and exploring ways to incorporate voting rights protections into state law as federal voting rights protections continue to be threatened.
For more information, including how to apply, click here.
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (“the Institute”) is seeking a web designer and developer to create a multi-layered, visually appealing and interactive website (the “Digital Exhibit”) to serve as a digital companion to the New Jersey Reparations Council’s 2025 report, For Such a Time as This: The Nowness of Reparations for Black People in New Jersey.
To learn more, including where to submit your proposal, visit here.
