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Anita Earls has worked passionately for 30 years protecting civil rights, fighting for families, and advocating for fair political processes. Earls founded the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a North Carolina based civil rights nonprofit that partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities in the South to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. Most recently, Earls is known for her leadership in litigating successful challenges to North Carolinas Monster voter suppression law and unfair redistricting plans.
In 1998, Anita was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, with responsibility for the voting, education, disability rights, and federal coordination and compliance sections. From 2000 to 2003, she directed the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. For the first ten years of her career, Anita was in private practice, litigating voting rights, police misconduct, school desegregation, and employment discrimination cases with what was then the Ferguson, Stein, Watt, Wallas, Adkins & Gresham law firm.
Anita has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and the University of North Carolina law schools, and in the African and African-American Studies Department at Duke University. Currently she is teaching attorneys in the Shriver Centers Racial Justice Training Institute. In 2011 Anita received the national NAACPs Civil Rights Champion Award. In 2017 she received a Defenders of Justice award from the North Carolina Justice Center and was recognized as a We Are Emily honoree by Emilys List.
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