Jeffery Robinson
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Jeffery Robinson, J.D. is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has over four decades of experience working on criminal and racial justice issues. Robinson was an original member of the John Adams Project, where he was one of the lawyers representing one of five men held at Guantanamo Bay charged with carrying out the 9/11 attacks. In 2015, Robinson left private practice to become one of the ACLU national office’s deputy legal directors and the director of the ACLU’s Trone Center for Justice and Equality. After six years at the ACLU, he left to launch The Who We Are Project, a nonprofit organization focused on correcting the narrative of our shared U.S. history.