Vanita Gupta served as the 19th Associate Attorney General of the United States, the third-ranking leader in the Department of Justice, from 2021–24. Previously, she was President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and led the DOJ Civil Rights Division in the Obama administration. She was previously deputy legal director of the ACLU and assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College and NYU Law. Vanita is also a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law.
Vanita Gupta
Executive Director
