Damon T. Hewitt
President & Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Damon Hewitt, a long-time civil rights lawyer, social justice strategist, philanthropist, and coalition-builder, currently serves as the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee, Hewitt served as inaugural executive director of the Executives’ Alliance for Boys and Men of Color. He previously served as Senior Advisor at the Open Society Foundations where he coordinated funding efforts responding to the uprising in Ferguson, Missouri. Before entering philanthropy, Hewitt worked for over a decade as an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund where he led pioneering efforts addressing the School to Prison Pipeline and coordinated litigation and advocacy efforts following Hurricane Katrina. Damon holds a B.A. in Political Science from Louisiana State University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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National Conference isn’t about YWCA USA, it’s about our broad network of local YWCA associations that implement the work at the local level for women, families, and people of color every day. It’s a time for our Local Associations to share, as a community of learning, and to walk away inspired by each other and the work of the YWCA family. It is a time for the YWCA movement, united as One YWCA, to share and celebrate our history, our mission and impact, planning for the work ahead, and continuing to write our YWCA story.