Tasleemah Tolulope Lawal (“Tolu”) (she/her) is an organizer and attorney who has worked at the New York University (“NYU”) School of Law Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law since September 2022. Prior to joining the Center, she was a racial justice legal fellow with the New York City Commission on Human Rights, working on legislative and policy analysis, public education and community collaboration, legal research, and restorative/transformative justice with a race-specific focus. While a student at NYU School of Law, Tolu served as the co-chair of the Black Allied Law Student Association and one of the lead organizers of the Racism Lives Here Too campaign. She interned at the Center in 2017 and at the ACLU Racial Justice Project in 2018, and she worked with NYU’s Juvenile Defenders Clinic from 2018 to 2019. Tolu is a co-founder and co-lead organizer of Unlock the Bar, a New York-based campaign and coalition of allied and systems-impacted law students and lawyers who are advocating for a just and equitable legal profession. She received her J.D. from NYU School of Law in 2019 and her B.A. from Duke University in 2014.