Thank you and congratulations to Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP for holding a career fair for students at Kelly Miller MS and for Carol Schlenker's recognition as "Volunteer of the Year" by Higher Achievement DC Metro. Read more here!

Congratulations to our Executive Director, Jonathan M. Smith, who will be receiving the 2022 Jerrold Scoutt Prize from the DC Bar Foundation.

Street Sense Media highlighted two of our 2022 Branton awardees, DC Justice Lab and Digital Equity in DC Education. Congratulations!

Ben Wilson, WLC Board Member, is receiving the 2022 Daniel Webster Award for Distinguished Public Service from the Dartmouth Club of DC.

Jacqueline Kutnik-Bauder, Deputy Legal Director, was quoted about the inhumane conditions at USP Thomson by The Marshall Project and NPR. The Committee has been investigating these conditions as a continued effort to protect those who had been incarcerated at USP Lewisburg.

As coalition members, we advocated for the DC Council to maintain it's commitment to Police Free Schools and to invest in behavioral health with #TeamSBBH, both of which passed in the FY2023 budget.

Stacey Litner, Prisoners' Rights Advocacy Director, was quoted on the importance of the right to vote for DC prisoners by the DCist.

With a coalition of organizations, we joined an amicus brief calling on the Supreme Court to overrule the Insular Cases which undercut the rights of residents of Puerto Rico and other territories.

We filed a joint amicus brief arguing the use of "high-crime area" and "unprovoked flight" must be limited to prevent these factors serving as proxies for race.

Together with a coalition, we joined an amicus in support of diversity and inclusion in admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax County, VA.

Catherine Cone, Supervising Housing Counsel, was quoted about the shared goals and struggles of first-generation lawyers by Bloomberg Law.

The Washington Post quoted Jonathan Smith on the Justice Department's response to the murder of 10 Black people in Buffalo on May 14th.

The Committee joined a coalition testifying in support of fines and fees reform.

Jonathan Smith was quoted in Deadline Detroit on policing in Detroit saying "The risk to people in the community is very, very high.”

The Committee mourns the passing of Rev. Dr. James (Jim) G. Macdonnell who was a co-founder of the Fair Housing Council of Greater Washington and the Equal Rights Center. He was a true advocate for civil rights and housing justice for our community.