Procureur Connie riz

Dans son travail juridique, Connie has led multi-racial coalitions of lawyers and clients to win more than $10 milliards de dollars en dommages-intérêts et des changements de politique, through traditional class action civil rights cases redressing police misconduct, race and sex discrimination and unfair public policy in transportation, probation et le logement public.

She filed a landmark case on behalf of low-income bus riders that resulted in a mandate that more than 2 billion dollars be spent to improve the bus system. Together with Co-Directors Molly Munger and Steve English, Connie a intenté une poursuite de la coalition, Godinez v. Davis, qui a gagné environ $1 billion for new school construction in Los Angeles and other urban areas – money previously slated for less crowded, plus riches districts scolaires de banlieue. With these funds the Los Angeles Unified School District began its nationally recognized program to build over 66 nouvelles écoles depuis 2001. After the court in Godinez required California to develop a new system for funding schools construction, Advancement Project was instrumental in assessing the need for adequate schools to serve all children in California and in crafting and shepherding three school construction bond initiatives that raised $25 billion for new and renovated facilities throughout the state, y compris $5 billion earmarked to relieve overcrowding in urban schools. Ce financement a permis la Californie pour construire ou rénover plus 1 million de places dans les écoles depuis 2000. Connie then chaired the Independent Prop. BB citoyens’ Bond Oversight Committee that monitored and evaluated how Los Angeles Unified School District used its allocation of school construction funds.

Avant de co-fonder projet de promotion, Connie was Co-Director of the Los Angeles office of the NAACP Legal Defense & Fonds pour l'éducation, un associé au sein du cabinet d'avocats Morrison & Foerster; and a clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith, judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Sixième circuit. Connie is a graduate of Harvard College and the New York University School of Law. Dans 2006, Los Angeles Times West Magazine named Connie one of the 100 most powerful people in Southern California, and California Law Business twice been named her one of the top 10 la plupart des avocats influents en Californie. Connie serves on the boards of the Public Policy Institute of California and public radio station KPCC.