Brennan Center for Justice

Leadership & Staff

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Faiza Patel Co-Director, Liberty and National Security Program, The Brennan Center for Justice

• Co-Director, Liberty & National Security Program

Inimai M Chettiar Director, Justice Program, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law

• Director, Justice Program,

Monica Youn Former Brennan Center Constitutional Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU of Law

• Constitutional Fellow

Wendy R Weiser Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law

• Director, Democracy Program

Daniel Weiner Counsel - Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice

• Counsel

Michael Waldman President of the Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law

• President

Sam Fried EVP, Limited Brands

• Advisory Board Member

Jennifer Sung Biden nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

• Skadden Fellow ('05→'07)

Robert A Johnson Former managing director, Soros Fund Management; head of a think tank, the Institute for New Economic Thinking

• Member, Advisory Board

Marta Nelson Senior Fellow, Vera Institute of Justice

• Former Attorney ('98→'99)*

Board Members

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Steven A Reiss Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

• Member, Board of Directors

Thomas M Jorde Professor Emeritus, Boalt Hall School of Law - UC Berkeley

• Member, Board of Directors

Wendy Kelman Neu Chairman and CEO, Hugo Neu (NYC-based)

• Member, Board of Directors

Kenji Yoshino Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University School of Law

• Member, Board of Directors

Gail Furman Psychologist; Head of the Furman Foundation

• Member, Board of Directors

Adam Winkler Professor, UCLA School of Law

• Member, Board of Directors

Stephen Schulhofer Professor, NYU School of Law

• Member, Board of Directors

Lawrence B Pedowitz Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

• Member, Board of Directors

Burt Neuborne Professor, NYU School of Law

• Member, Board of Directors

Erin Murphy Professor, NYU School of Law

• Member, Board of Directors

Donors

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Kohlberg Foundation

• Donation/Grant · 3,000,000 USD

MacArthur Foundation Major private grant-making foundation; based in Chicago

• Funder · 1,835,000 USD ('12→'16) [+1]

• Donor · 250,000 USD ('18)

Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust Arts, Health, Education, Jewish Activities

• Donor · 1,000,000 USD ('18)

Lakeshore Foundation Disability Rehabilitation Center in Alabama

• Donor · 1,000,000 USD

Open Society Foundations International grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros

• Donor · 1,000,000 USD

Craig Newmark Founder of craigslist.org

• Donor · 1,000,000 USD ('18)

Ford Foundation Major private foundation based in NYC

• Donor · 1,000,000 USD

Hewlett Foundation Private foundation established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder

• Funder · 1,000,000 USD ('18)*

Marguerite Casey Foundation

• Donor · 300,000 USD ('17)

The Mertz Gilmore Foundation

• Donor · 250,000 USD ('18)

Donations

American Constitution Society liberal legal organization

• Donation/Grant

Parents

New York University School of Law

• Parent Org

Memberships

Students Learn Students Vote Coalition National Conference on Citizenship subgroup

• Member

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights U.S. human rights coalition

• Member

Services & Transactions

Anthony M Masiello Former Mayor of Buffalo, NY

• lobbyist

Miscellaneous Relationships

Partnership for American Democracy

• Affiliation

Voter ID

• opposed by

National Popular Vote

• supported by

Reforming Funding To Reduce Mass Incarceration Brennan Center White Paper

• Project*