Keri A. Nash, Esq., Director of the Racial Equity Initiative/Racial Equity Institute. Prior to joining NLADA, Keri was a policy analyst at the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health, a staff attorney at the Center for Children’s Law and Policy, and the Counsel for the Racial Justice Initiative of TimeBanks USA. Before graduating summa cum laude from UDC David A Clarke School of Law, she worked at Housing Counseling Services, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Congressman Brad Carson (D-OK). Received her BA in Politics from New York University, she was raised in Brooklyn, NY, and is a first generation American from Grenada. Keri is an attorney who has spent her career focused on impacting policy on the federal, state, and local levels to improve the lives of people of color and other marginalized.