Avvocato Connie Rice

Nel suo lavoro legale, Connie has led multi-racial coalitions of lawyers and clients to win more than $10 miliardi di dollari in danni e cambiamenti politici, through traditional class action civil rights cases redressing police misconduct, race and sex discrimination and unfair public policy in transportation, sospensione condizionale e edilizia residenziale pubblica.

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 ha lanciato una causa legale coalizione, Godinez v. Davis, che ha vinto circa $1 billion for new school construction in Los Angeles and other urban areas – money previously slated for less crowded, distretti scolastici di periferia più ricche. With these funds the Los Angeles Unified School District began its nationally recognized program to build over 66 nuove scuole da 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, compresi $5 billion earmarked to relieve overcrowding in urban schools. Questo finanziamento ha permesso California per costruire o rinnovare oltre 1 milioni di spazi scolastici da 2000. Connie then chaired the Independent Prop. BB cittadini’ Bond Oversight Committee that monitored and evaluated how Los Angeles Unified School District used its allocation of school construction funds.

Prima di co-fondare avanzamento del progetto, Connie was Co-Director of the Los Angeles office of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, un associato presso lo studio legale di Morrison & Foerster; and a clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith, judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Sesto Circuito. Connie is a graduate of Harvard College and the New York University School of Law. In 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 maggior parte avvocati influenti in California. Connie serves on the boards of the Public Policy Institute of California and public radio station KPCC.