Thank you for supporting our 4th Annual Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship Luncheon on June 2. Our program included remarks by Tom Saenz, counsel to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. He served as MALDEF’s lead counsel in successfully challenging California’s Proposition 187 in court, presenting extensive arguments on numerous occasions in three different cases involving the anti-immigrant initiative.

EJS is one of the few institutions with an explicit focus on overturning barriers to implementing the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and antidiscrimination legislation. We are dedicated to redefining the “equal protection” clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in order to redress and prevent present-day forms of bias and discrimination.