Sherrilyn Ifill
Founding Director, 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy, Howard University
Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer and scholar. From 2013 to 2022, she served as the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s premier civil rights law organization fighting for racial justice and equality. Since then, Ifill has served as a senior fellow at the Ford Foundation, a fellow at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and as the Klinsky Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Ifill is currently the Vernon Jordan Distinguished Professor in Civil Rights at Howard Law School, where she is also the Founding Director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Law Institute. Ifill was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME.
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