Nkechi Taifa is president of The Taifa Group, LLC, founder and director of the Reparation Education Project Inc., convener emeritus of the Justice Roundtable, and serves as Senior Fellow for the Columbia University Center for Justice. Taifa was Advocacy Director for Criminal Justice at the Open Society Foundations for 16 years. She also served as Legislative & Policy Counsel for the ACLU & the Women's Legal Defense Fund; Director of Howard University School of Law's Equal Justice Program; Staff Attorney for Nat'l Prison Project; Network Organizer for the Washington Office on Africa.