DR. LEZLI BASKERVILLE, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, NAFEO

Ms. Baskerville’s professional career is rooted in NAFEO. She began working with NAFEO as a legal research associate for Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law Herbert O. Reid, Sr., and has worked with NAFEO over the years in many capacities, including as a member of the legal team that negotiated the consent decree in the landmark higher education institutional equalization case of Adams v. Califano; as a member of the NAFEO brief writing teams in the landmark Supreme Court affirmative action cases of Bakke, Weber, and Fullilove; as a program director; and as outside counsel.

Attorney Baskerville has also served as Vice President for Government Relations of The College Board, founding member of The Baskerville Group, a legal and legislative services collective, an administrative appeals judge for employee appeals in the District of Columbia, National Legislative Counsel for the NAACP, Executive Director of the National Black Leadership Roundtable, a member of the appellate team at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, a congressional staffer, and a law clerk in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.