Through his Equal Justice Works Fellowship, Daniel will work in collaboration with the North Carolina Justice Center to provide legal representation to low-income individuals who face barriers to employment due to prior criminal convictions. He will also advocate for a broader legislative response to the collateral consequences of criminal convictions in North Carolina. In the long term, Daniel’s project will lower rates of recidivism by encouraging the successful reintegration of individuals with criminal convictions into their North Carolina communities.
Daniel’s commitment to his project is deeply personal. Growing up in a low-income North Carolina community, he witnessed firsthand the challenges his parents faced as a result of their own criminal convictions. His work is inspired both by his own parents and by the many other North Carolinians he has seen resiliently striving for community inclusion despite persistent barriers to employment and housing.
A 2011 graduate of New York University School of Law, Daniel was a recipient of the full-tuition Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholarship, awarded for commitment to public service, leadership and academic merit. At NYU, he served as Director of the Prisoners’ Rights and Education Program and participated in the Offender Re-Entry and Economic Justice Clinics. Before attending law school, Daniel served as the 2007-2008 Autry Fellow at MDC, Inc., a poverty relief organization working in the American South. As an Autry Fellow, he worked on behalf of the North Carolina Asset Building Policy Task Force, FEMA’s Minority Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Project, the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness, and the Durham At-risk Youth Collaborative. While an undergraduate at Duke University, Daniel was the Duke-Durham Community Liaison in the wake of the lacrosse scandal, an Executive Board member of the ACLU of North Carolina, and the recipient of awards from Duke and the Durham Human Relations Commission in recognition of his distinguished leadership, service, and commitment to social equality.
Daniel will launch his project in September.
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