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Colette pichon battle3/28/2023 ![]() Albritton leads LANC’s response to Hurricanes Matthew, Florence, and Dorian, Tropical Storm Fred and numerous other smaller events. Lesley Wiseman Albritton is the Project Coordinator and Managing Attorney of the Disaster Relief Project at Legal Aid of North Carolina, Inc., where she is privileged to work with a team of outstanding lawyers, paralegals, and social workers assisting North Carolinians recover from natural disasters. Project Coordinator and Managing Attorney of the Disaster Relief Project at LANC Tara clerked for Judge Emilio Garza on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics and NYU Law School, where she was an Articles Editor on the Law Review. She has also represented habeas petitioners on death row in California, and worked at a technology startup. Most recently, she was a Fair Lending Enforcement attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. and federal courts about prosecutorial misconduct, DNA databases, the constitutionality of sex offender conditions, eyewitness identification, and civil asset forfeiture. ![]() Tara began her civil rights career as a Special Litigation attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she litigated cases in the D.C. ![]() Her cases include a lawsuit against the District Attorney’s Office for Orleans Parish for its yearslong patterns of misconduct towards witnesses a challenge to the money bail practices in Hamblen County, Tennessee, which resulted in a preliminary injunction habeas representation of clients in Oregon, and challenges to modern-day debtors’ prisons in Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee. Tara’s work focuses on fighting the criminalization of poverty and wealth-based pretrial detention, and on the accountability of prosecutors and other legal system actors. A devoted mother of two, wife and community activist, she is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority incorporated currently serving in the Houston Alumnae chapter. Passionate about centering the voices of Black workers in the fight for labor rights and addressing anti-blackness and racism within the labor movement she found her way to the National Domestic Workers Alliance to lead the We Dream in Black Houston Chapter. After a brief pause to focus on her family and to pursue a personal passion of anti-violence related community organizing, she returned to the labor movement as a Senior Organizer for United for Respect, where she had her first experience in non-union labor organizing. She began her career in the labor movement as an organizer with the Texas State Employees Union, a statewide CWA local and then later as an organizer with the American Federation of Teachers Houston organizing project organizing school employees in the Houston ISD. High School and from there The University of Texas at Austin where she studied sociology. A native Houstonian from the 3rd Ward area where she attended the historic Jack Yates Sr. Lauren Simmons-Mitchell is a lead organizer for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, where she organizes Black domestic domestic workers through the organization’s We Dream in Black program. Lead Organizer for the National Domestic Workers Alliance DeFusco received her JD from Temple University School of Law and her BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She has also served as an instructor, an Assistant Team Leader, and a Co-Team Leader for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy since 1991. ![]() DeFusco serves as an Adjunct Professor in Trial Advocacy at both Villanova and Temple University Schools of Law. She was also instrumental in the founding of the Project Dawn Court, a problem solving court for women charged with prostitution. She was one of the founding members of the Philadelphia Treatment Court, the first problem-solving court in Pennsylvania. DeFusco is a founding member and President of the Board of Directors of Dawn’s Place, a home for women survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation. She was Deputy Chief of the Municipal Court Unit of the Defender Association of Philadelphia from 1987 to 1995 and served as a trial attorney from 1982 to 1987. ![]() DeFusco is the Director of Training at the Defender Association of Philadelphia. Director of Training at the Defender Association of Philadelphia ![]()
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