dhewitt24@nul.org

Damon T. Hewitt has more than 20 years of civil rights litigation and policy experience,  including leadership roles in the nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors. Prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee, Hewitt was the inaugural executive director of the Executives’ Alliance for Boys and Men of Color. He also served as the chief liaison from the  philanthropic community to the White House on policy issues impacting young men of color. For more than decade, Hewitt was an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and  Educational Fund, serving as  lead counsel on a variety of litigation and policy matters.  One of his most important cases, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center v. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, resulted in nearly $500M in new relief for Louisiana homeowners.