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Richard Cohen President	Lecia Brooks Director of Outreach	Morris Dees Founder, Chief Trial Attorney
Heidi Beirich Intelligence Project Director	Mark Potok Senior Fellow	Maureen Costello Teaching Tolerance Director
Wendy Via Director of Development and Brand Communications	Dana Vickers Shelley Director of Public Affairs

Hate and Extremism

Joseph T. Roy

Chief Investigator

Children at Risk

Jerri Katzerman Deputy Legal Director	Maria Morris Managing Attorney - Alabama	Ebony Howard Staff Attorney/Juvenile Justice Policy Specialist
Tania Galloni Managing Attorney - Florida	Christine Henderson Director of Advocacy - Florida	David J. Utter Director of Policy - Florida
Katie Schwartzmann Managing Attorney - Louisiana	Eden Heilman - Louisiana Senior Staff Attorney	Maggie Yates - Louisana Education Advocate, Louisiana Initiatives
Jody Owens II Managing Attorney - Mississippi	Vanessa Carroll - Mississippi Senior Staff Attorney, Mississippi Initiatives	Jed Oppenheim - Mississippi Senior Advocate, Mississippi Initiatives

Immigrant Justice

Jim Knoepp

Deputy Legal Director

Dan Werner

Senior Supervising Attorney

Kristi Graunke

Senior Staff Attorney

LGBT Rights

David Dinielli

Deputy Legal Director

Samuel Wolfe

Staff Attorney

Ashley Jackson

Advocate

Teaching Tolerance

Thom Ronk

Senior Manager, Teaching and Learning