Walter A. Jean-Jacques
Assistant General Counsel, National Urban League
Walter Anthony Jean-Jacques is the Assistant General Counsel of the National Urban League. Mr. Jean-Jacques is a former Litigation Fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. in Washington, D.C. where he focused on racial justice litigation. Additionally, he is a former judicial law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.Mr. Jean-Jacques is a recipient of the Bank of America Foundation, Equal Justice America, and National Lawyers Guild Haywood Burns Fellowships. He also has worked at the Southern Poverty Law Center and Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.
Currently, Mr. Jean-Jacques is the Dean Advisory Board Member for the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, former Board Member for Equal Justice Works, and former inaugural Advisory Board Member for the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame.
Mr. Jean-Jacques earned a BA in African-American Studies with Honors and Political Science from Columbia University, MS in Social Policy from the University of Pennsylvania, and JD from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he received the David T. Link Award for outstanding service in the field of social justice and Alvin McKenna Alumnus of the Year Award.