Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers names Lurie Daniel Favors as executive director
The Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College (CLSJ) has appointed well-known racial justice attorney and advocate Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. as its executive director. Daniel Favors previously served as interim executive director and general counsel.
In her new role, Daniel Favors will lead CLSJ’s strategic direction, building on a strong, 36-year-old foundation to address racial justice issues by providing quality legal advocacy, conducting community education campaigns, facilitating research and building organizing capacity on behalf of New Yorkers of African descent and the disenfranchised.
CLSJ seeks to accomplish its mission by initiating advocacy projects and litigation, conducting research, and providing community education and training on behalf of and in collaboration with community organizations and groups.
“Since 1986, CLSJ has been the standard-bearer for advocacy in the New York fight for racial, social, and economic justice,” says Daniel Favors. “I’m honored to inherit its important legacy, and I am committed to shaping its future so that CLSJ can continue to protect and empower Black New Yorkers and other vulnerable groups at a time when systemic racial inequities have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic and exacerbated by a dangerous escalation of violent white nationalist extremism and an all-out assault on voting rights.”