Nonny Onyekweli
Director, Criminal Justice, National Urban League
Nonny Onyekweli is a lawyer and the Director of Criminal Justice at the National Urban League where she is develops and implements their racial, social, and criminal justice reform-related campaigns. She uses advocacy and public education strategies to advance racial justice on the federal, state and local level, with a particular focus on policing.
Prior to the League, she was a litigation associate at Skadden, Arps where her pro bono practice included immigration, children’s rights, and family law and she served as the co-chair for the Law Firm Anti-Racism Alliance Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Committee. She also worked at the Legal Aid Society as an immigration public defender and represented medically vulnerable clients during the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic.
She was previously a fellow at NYU School of Law’s Policing Project and a member of the Cleveland Police Federal Monitoring Team working to implement the Federal Consent Decree between the City of Cleveland and the U.S. Department of Justice focusing on constitutional policing.
Nonny is a writer and opines of issues surrounding race, intersectionality, and policing. She holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and B.S. from the University of Maryland.