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Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Founding & Executive Director
Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking... more
 
Susan Eaton, Research Director
Susan Eaton is Research Director at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.  Her scholarly and research interests center around the causes and cures for unequal opportunities for racial, ethnic and linguistic... more
 
Kelly Garvin , Staff Assistant
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David J. Harris, Managing Director
David J. Harris is the Managing Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. David has extensive experience in many facets of civil rights issues from police brutality and racial profiling, to redistricting... more
 
Sheryl Jackson-Holliday, Staff Assistant
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Nichele McClendon , Executive Assistant to Prof. Charles Ogletree
Nichele McClendon is a 2006 graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Social Anthropology, and has been working for Professor Charles Ogletree since December of 2006.  Nichele grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, and therefore has a deep love of cheese... more
 
Colin Ovitsky, Events & Communications Coordinator
Colin Ovitsky is the Events & Communications Coordinator for the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School. He previously served as the Faculty Assistant to Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and has worked... more
 
Ernest Owens, Staff Assistant
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Kaia Stern, Project Director, Pathways Home
Kaia Stern is Director of the Pathways Home Project at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on transformative justice and education in prison, with specific attention to the experiences of... more
 
Johanna Wald, Director of Strategic Planning & Development
Johanna Wald, Director of Strategic Planning, worked previously at The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, where she served as a writer and editor, senior development officer and policy analyst. She was responsible for raising funds from foundations... more
 
Lawrence Watson, Artist in Residence
Lawrence Watson is a professor of voice and performance at Berklee College of Music. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego where he majored in secondary education and history. At Oswego, he auditioned and played the lead in... more
 
Tami Wilson, School to Prison Pipeline Project Coordinator
Tami Wilson previously worked with incarcerated students as a teacher at the Judge Connelly Youth Center.  She also worked as part of the New England Family Study research team at the Harvard School of Public Health, and as a case manager for “at-risk”... more