Lisa Holder is President of the Oakland-based Equal Justice Society and recently completed her two-year term as an appointee of Gov. Gavin Newsom on the historic Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. Ms. Holder is a nationally recognized, award-winning trial attorney with specialized expertise in equal protection, education equity, employment discrimination, constitutional policing, and international human rights law. In 2019, she drafted AB 241 and 242, the laws that now require all judges, attorneys, court staff, and health professionals to undertake continuing education on bias elimination. In 2020, she served on the steering committee for the Proposition 16 campaign to repeal California’s ban on affirmative action. Ms. Holder received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and her JD from New York University School of Law where she was a distinguished Root-Tilden Scholar.
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