Dennis Parker

Dennis Parker is the Director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, which seeks to create equal opportunities for communities of color through litigation, public education, organizing, and legislation. Prior to joining the ACLU, he was Chief of the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office, and on the staffs of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the law firm Vladeck, Waldman, and the New York Legal Aid Society. Parker publishes and lectures on civil rights and is an adjunct professor at New York Law School. He has a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College and a law degree from Harvard Law School.