Wade Henderson
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Position: Executive Director
Organization: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Location: Washington, DC
Wade Henderson is a Panel member.
Wade Henderson is executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and counsel to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. The nation's premier civil and human rights coalition, LCCR encompasses over 180 national organizations, including those representing persons of color, women, children, organized labor, persons with disabilities, older Americans, gays and lesbians, civil liberties and human rights interests, and major religious institutions. Under Mr. Henderson's leadership, LCCR has become one of the nation's most effective defenders of civil and human rights; it currently works on election reform, federal judicial appointments, public education reform, prevention of hate crimes, criminal justice reform, and immigration and refugee policy. He graduated from Howard University and the Rutgers University School of Law (Newark) and was previously Washington bureau director of the NAACP and associate director of the Washington national office of the American Civil Liberties Union. His many awards include the Congressional Black Caucus Chair's Award; the District of Columbia Bar's William J. Brennan Award; and the Everett C. Parker Award from the Office of Communication, Inc. of the United Church of Christ.