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Alan Jenkins

Alan Jenkins, Executive Director, comes to The Opportunity Agenda from the Ford Foundation, where he served as Director of Human Rights, Deputy Director for Human Rights and International Cooperation, and Program Officer for Racial Justice. As a unit Director at Ford, Jenkins managed over $50 million in grant making annually in the United States and eleven overseas regions. Previously, Jenkins was Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented the United States government in constitutional and other litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he was Associate Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., where he defended the rights of low income communities suffering from exploitation and discrimination. His other positions have included Assistant Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Law Clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Carter, and Coordinator of the Access to Justice Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. Jenkins serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Community Change and the Legal Action Center, and is a Co-Chair of the American Constitution Society's Project on the Constitution in the Twenty-First Century. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Masters degree in Media Studies from New School University, and a Bachelors in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University.

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