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Jacqueline Berrien, of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Chosen to Head E.E.O.C.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Obama Chooses an E.E.O.C. Leader Published: July 16, 2009 NY Times President Obama picked Jacqueline A. Berrien, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The White House made the announcement just hours before Mr. Obama addressed the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. Ms. Berrien, a Harvard Law School graduate, has been the fund?s associate director-counsel since 2004. For three years, she was program officer in the Ford Foundation?s peace and social justice program, administering more than $13 million in grants to promote political participation by under-represented groups. She also has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 17, 2009 (boomark / email).