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HONOREES
SCHR is pleased to present the 2022 Frederick Douglass Awards to deserving honorees whose efforts to advance human rights and equal justice light the path to a more just society.
Kelley Henry is the Chief of the Federal Public Defender Capital Habeas Unit in Nashville, Tennessee. Kelley’s career in indigent defense began in 1989 as the first legal intern for the Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center. Kelley has been involved in capital litigation since then. She has represented men and women in capital trial, appellate, post-conviction, habeas, § 1983, and clemency proceedings. Currently, Kelley is lead counsel for Pervis Payne, a black man living with an intellectual disablity who was wrongfully convicted for the 1987 murder of a white woman and her child in Shelby County, Tennessee. Payne was removed from death row in 2021 under a change in Tennessee law prompted by his case.
Rolanda Holman is the loving and devoted sister of Pervis Payne. Rolanda was just 13 when her brother was arrested. Although she did not fully understand what was happening at the time, she knew that her brother could not have committed the crime he was accused of. She has spent the last 35 years advocating and fighting for her brother’s innocence and championing his story. When she is not working to free her brother, Rolanda strives to impact the lives of people across the globe. She is a wife and mother, author, and motivational speaker who wholeheartedly believes that people can live life to their fullest potential, and she embodies an undying passion and fire for purpose.
Andrew carries many titles: husband, father, college graduate, advocate, and nonprofit leader. But it was not that long ago when he carried the label “juvenile lifer.”
In June 2016, Andrew became the first juvenile lifer in Louisiana to be paroled following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Miller and Montgomery decisions that prohibited the mandatory sentencing of children to life without parole. He co-founded Louisiana Parole Project in August 2016 to provide advocacy and reentry support to men and women who were sentenced to life or other extreme sentences and deserving of redemption. Under his leadership, the organization has expanded its scope to also offer direct legal representation, promote justice reforms, and change the narrative around second chances.
KEYNOTE
Paul Butler is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a legal analyst on MSNBC.
Professor Butler is one of the nation’s most frequently consulted scholars on issues of race and criminal justice. His work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and The ABC, CBS and NBC Evening News. He lectures regularly for the American Bar Association and the NAACP, and at colleges, law schools, and community organizations throughout the United States. He serves on the District of Columbia Code Revision Commission as an appointee of the D.C. City Council.
His book “Chokehold: Policing Black Men” was published in July 2017. The Washington Post named it one of the 50 best non-fiction books of 2017. Chokehold was also named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The New York Times described Chokehold as the best book on criminal justice reform since The New Jim Crow. It was a finalist for the 2018 NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction.
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Thursday, November 10, 2022
@ 6:00 PM EST
Willard InterContinental
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
You can use our unique group code SCH to receive a discount when you make your hotel reservation.
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LEADING SPONSORS
The Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner is SCHR’s flagship gala to recognize and celebrate those who demonstrate exceptional courage and tenacity in the defense of human rights and equal justice. This gala allows us to illuminate allies who share our vision and commitment to a more just society. Proceeds from the Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner support SCHR’s work to protect the civil and human rights of people ensnared by the criminal legal system.
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Thursday, November 10, 2022
@ 6:00 PM EST
Willard InterContinental
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
You can use our unique group code SCH to receive a discount when you make your hotel reservation.