Janell Byrd-Chichester
Janell Byrd-Chichester is the director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). She previously served as an LDF assistant counsel from 1987-2001, during which time she litigated school desegregation, affirmative action in higher education, and employment discrimination cases; led LDF’s educational policy work with a focus on high-stakes testing; and managed LDF’s Washington, D.C., office. As a civil rights litigator and public policy advocate, she has used social science research extensively on a broad array of civil rights issues—including fair housing and lending, consumer protection, school desegregation and educational testing, affirmative action, employment discrimination, police misconduct, and public accommodations. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she was a member of the California Law Review and a graduate, cum laude, of American University in Washington, D.C.
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Deep Dive : Lies and the Law
We Must Fight Lies, Ignorance, and the Bigotry They Produce If We Are To Remain a Democracy
Defeating the use of disinformation means pressing our government for laws that protect democracy and promote the truth, while we practice the same in our public and private lives
By Janell Byrd-Chichester