Orlando Johnson is a Fellow and the point-of-contact for critical race theory legislation and school-to-prison pipeline matters.
Our Team
Leadership and Faculty
Bilqis Wilkerson
Managing Director
Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center
bilqis.wilkerson@Howard.eduFellows and Staff Attorneys
J. Orlando Johnson
Dr. M. Alex Evans
Dr. Evans is a Law Teaching Fellow who specializes in Black liberation and education justice.
Maggie Ellinger-Locke
Maggie Ellinger-Locke, she/her, serves as environmental justice staff attorney for the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. In this role she seeks to provide support to communities confronting the root causes of environmental harm, and support activists engaged in long term struggle.
Marques Banks
Marques Banks is a Staff Attorney who specializes in addressing state sanctioned violence within the criminal legal system. He will focus on the criminalization of poverty and readdressing public safety.
Student Interns Make a Difference
Whether JD/BA students, Howard undergraduates, students from collaborating universities like Harvard, Columbia and HBCU's, volunteers have had a major impact on our ability to do the work the is required of our Center. We would like to acknowledge Jy'Mir Starks, Sabrina Burgess-Garrett, and Nyla Jones for completing over 200 hours of volunteer service.
My experience at the Center helped me to land my summer job.