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"What I can say for sure is that something big has happened to me, I know this because everything feels very different. Maybe this year has chipped away at some of my jaded edges and left me feeling a little more optimistic about the world."
Lawrence Tompkins (2007 - 2008)
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Fire Department of New York
Alan Jenkins
Director of the Human Rights and International Cooperation Unit
Peace and Social Justice Initiative, Ford Foundation
Alan Jenkins is Director of the Human Rights and International Cooperation unit at the Ford Foundation in New York. He previously served as Deputy Director and as Program Officer for Racial Justice within that unit. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Mr. Jenkins came to the Foundation from the U.S. Justice Department, where he served as Assistant to the Solicitor General. In that capacity, he represented the federal government in litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1991 to 1995, he worked as Assistant Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, focusing on the rights of low-income people of color. His earlier positions include Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and Coordinator of the Access to Justice Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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