Lynn Huntley

Lynn Huntley is president of the Southern Education Foundation (SEF), located in Atlanta, Georgia. SEF is a public charity focused on reducing educational inequality in the American South and abroad for low-income students, with special emphasis on persons of African decent. Ms. Huntley has worked as a law clerk for a federal judge; staff attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Educational Fund, Inc., where she focused on cases involving the abolition of the death penalty, prisoner rights and education desegregation; general council to the New York City Commission on Civil Rights; the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division; and the Ford Foundation's Rights and Social Justice Program, where she focused on minority and women's rights, refugee and migration issues, legal and services for the poor. Ms. Huntley also conceived and directed the Comparative Human Relations Initiative, an examination of race and inequality in Brazil, South Africa and the United States and strategies to surmount discrimination. Ms. Huntley received her A.B. in sociology with honors from Barnard College and her J.D. degree with honors from Columbia University Law School, where she was a member of The Columbia Law Review.