This episode is dedicated to the memory of Congressman John Lewis. We will continue the fight for equality and justice in America.
ANGELYN C. FRAZER-GILES is the Executive Director of the National Network for Justice (NNJ). She is also the founder of Solace for Sistas a social and support network of Black and Brown women committed to human and civil rights, and social and criminal justice advocacy and activities.
Angelyn has degrees from the Fashion Institute of Technology and the University of Washington. She studied Spanish at the Universidad de Guadalajara in Jalisco, México, and received her Paralegal Certificate from Delaware State University. She is a licensed instructor of Zumba and is currently studying to be an End of Life Doula.
NKECHI TAIFA, ESQ.
Nkechi Taifa is President of The Taifa Group, LLC, and convenes the Justice Roundtable, a Washington-based advocacy coalition advancing federal justice reforms. She is also a Senior Fellow with the Center for Justice at Columbia University. Nkechi previously served as Advocacy Director for Criminal Justice for the Open Society Foundations, as founding Director of the Equal Justice Program at Howard University Law School, and as an adjunct professor at both Howard Law and American University Washington College of Law. She was legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, public policy counsel for the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, and staff attorney for the National Prison Project. As a private practitioner, she represented indigent adults and juveniles and practiced employment discrimination law. Over the course of her career she has spoken extensively across the country on justice reform and human rights issues and has testified before the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Council of the District of Columbia, the American Bar Association Justice Kennedy Commission, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the U.S. Helsinki Commission.
Nkechi Taifa is a founding member of NCOBRA - the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America and serves as a Commissioner on the National African American Reparations Commission. She has written extensively on issues of justice, including four law review articles, and has received numerous awards for her social justice advocacy and accomplishments.
Nkechi is the author of a forthcoming memoir, Black Power/Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice
