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Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Founding & Executive Director
Charles Ogletree, the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, 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... more
 
Gina Chirichigno, Researcher/Post-PICS Coordinator
A native of Denver, Colorado, Gina is a graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and of Howard University School of Law in Washington, DC. Prior to law school, she worked for one year as a Residential Instructor at the SEED Public Charter School... 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, Administrative Coordinator
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Darrick Northington, Executive Assistant to Professor Charles Ogletree
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Jean O'Friel, Engagements Coordinator to Professor Charles Ogletree
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Ernest Owens, Staff Assistant
Ernest Owens has been a Staff Assistant at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute since 2007. At the Institute he assists in the technology, media, research and administration fields. Ernest is a 2004 graduate of Campbell University with a B.A. in Business... more
 
Kaia Stern, Director, Prison Studies Project and Adviser to Pathways Home
Kaia Stern is Director of the Prison Studies Project and an adviser to Pathways Home at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on transformative justice, human rights and education in prison.... 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