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Our Team

Board of Trustees

 

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

 

Emeriti

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

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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.

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