National Lawyer Guild: NLG

The NLG is dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.

Our aim is to bring together all those who recognize the importance of safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, women, LGBTQ people, farmers, people with disabilities and people of color, upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends; who seek actively to eliminate racism; who work to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them; and who look upon the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.

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132 Nassau Street, Rm. 922
New York, NY 10038
Ph. (212) 679-5100
Fax (212) 679-2811

Board and Staff

National Officers

• 
  Azadeh Shahshahani
  President
• Bina Ahmad
  National Vice President
• 
  Camilo Romero
  National Vice President
• 
  Claire White
  Student National Vice President
• Gabriela Lopez
  National Vice President
• 
  Marcus Kryshka
  Legal Worker Co-Vice President
• Mumia Abu-Jamal
  Jailhouse Lawyer Vice President
• 
  Natasha Bannan
  Executive Vice President
• Roxana Orrell
  Treasurer
• Theresa Squillacote
  Jailhouse Lawyer Vice President
• 
  Whitney Leeds
  Student National Vice President

Regional Vice Presidents

• Alistair McKenzie
  Regional Vice President, Southern Region
• 
  Anthony Prince
  Regional Vice President, Midwest Region
• Daphne Silverman
  Regional Vice President, Texoma Region
• Francie Nevill
  Co-Regional Vice President, Northwest Region
• Hasmik Geghamyan
  Co-Regional Vice President, Far West Region
• Joel Kupferman
  Co-Regional Vice President, Northeast Region
• 
  Martha Schmidt
  Co-Regional Vice President, Northwest Region
• 
  Michele Grant
  Co-Regional Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region
• 
  Rachel Rosnick
  Co-Regional Vice President, Mideast Region
• Tony Paris
  Co-Regional Vice President, Mideast Region
• Urszula Masny-Latos
  Co-Regional Vice President, Northeast Region
• Wolfgang Nordemeyer
  Regional Vice President, Southwest Region

National Office Staff

• 
  Heidi Boghosian
  Executive Director, National Office
• 
  Abi Hassen
  Mass Defense Coordinator, National Office
• Rosemarie Stupel
  Membership Coordinator
• 
  Tasha Moro
  Communications Coordinator
• 
  Traci Yoder
  Student Organizer/Senior Researcher

Committee Representatives

• 
  Brigitt Keller
  Executive Director, National Police Accountability Project
• Dave Rini
  Co-Chair, NextGen Committee
• Gabriela Lopez
  Co-Chair, The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC)
• Greg Gladden
  Co-Chair, Mass Defense Committee
• 
  Jean Stevens
  Co-Chair, Anti-Racism Committee
• 
  Jeanne Mirer
  Co-Chair, International Committee
• Kathy Johnson
  Chair, Military Law Task Force
• Kerry McLean
  Co-Chair, Anti-Sexism Committee
• 
  Lilian Jimenez
  Co-Chair, The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC)
• 
  Megan Books
  Co-Chair, Mass Defense Committee
• Natali Segovia
  Co-Chair, The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC)
• Samantha Godwin
  Co-Chair, NextGen Committee
• 
  Suzanne Adely
  Co-Chair, International Committee
• 
  Timothy Lunceford
  Co-Chair, Disability Rights Committee

[sidebar:  The NLG .. to function as an effective force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.

... property interests ie 'the body-mind-spirit' & our five (5) elements supporting this unseen seen reality in the earth 'physical' ?

The NLG con't ... Our aim is to bring together all those who recognize the importance of safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, ... [ie eg 'sidebar' men/women / women/men and/or whatever combo vise 'a' versa/s], LGBTQ people, farmers, people with disabilities and people of color, upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends; who seek actively to eliminate racism; who work to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them; and who look upon the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.

>>>> workers, men or women and / or women or men, ie rights of workers, men, women and / or eg rights of workers, women, men, and here LGBTQ ? Well how about rather than sexually stereotype, A through Z ?

>>>> and, any and all programming of racism, sexism, supremacist prejudices, Et Cetera, are to become an alchemy in the education of APARTHEID and GENOCIDE as the models for the species Homo Sapiens, and this is a Totalitarian and Militant-Police Gulag.

>>>> plus, civil liberties and rights are unalienable and inalienable, we're born in nature and the laws of a select few 'humans' must be completely examined in the Twenty-first Century ?

ECONOMIC SOCIETY LAWFULLY PROTECTED !

The/a SELECT FEW who have stolen America's RIGHT to Money Sovereignty, these monsters must be held to the highest standard of JUSTICE.

NAMED AS, but not limited to:  the entity/ies named the Bank of International Settlements [Bis-BIS / Biz-BIZ], International Monetary Fund [IMF], and the Federal Reserve System [Fed / FED], must be made fully transparent in a complete audit via the CITIZENS' LAWYERS' in the millions that are MEMBERS of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights'.]