Vanita Gupta is the President of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She previously served as the acting Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division and the top civil rights prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice. Before her work at the DOJ she was a civil rights lawyer and the Deputy Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where she oversaw the ACLU's national criminal justice reform efforts. She is a graduate of Yale and New York University Law School.
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Federal Oversight of Local Police Departments - Podcast
Criminal Law & Procedure Practice Group Podcast
Under Attorney Generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, the Department of Justice entered into a...
Vanita Gupta, Department of Justice’s Top Civil Rights Prosecutor, on Criminal Justice Reform and Policing - Podcast
Civil Rights Practice Group Podcast
Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, delivered...