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Updated January 2, 2007

Commission Members

Bill Beardall, Executive Director, Equal Justice Center, and Director, Transnational Worker Rights Clinic, University of Texas School of Law

Clarita Bourque, Coordinator, Marianite Bywater Project

Mahdi Bray, Board Member, Interfaith Worker Justice and Executive Director, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation

Bill Chandler, President and Executive Director, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance

James Carter, SJ, Former President, Loyola University New Orleans

Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO

Charlie Cray, Director, Center for Corporate Policy

Ramona Edelin, Vice-Chair, Black Leadership Forum

Bill Fletcher Jr., President and CEO TransAfrica Forum

Bunnatine Greenhouse, Former Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting, Army Corps of Engineers

Jean Hardisty, President and Founder, Political Research Associates

Damen Hewitt, Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Thomas Hoyt Jr., Former President, National Council of Churches USA and Presiding Bishop, Louisiana and Mississippi (District 10) Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Nelson Johnson, Board President, Interfaith Worker Justice, Vice President, Pulpit Forum of Greenboro and Pastor, Faith Community Church

Bill Lucy, President, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and President and International Secretary Treasurer, AFSCME

George Lundy, SJ, Pastor, Martin Luther King Catholic Student Center, Southern University

Major R. Owens, Congressman (NY), U.S. House of Representatives

Bill Quigley, Director of the Law Clinic, Loyola Poverty Law Center, New Orleans

Mtangulizi Sanyika, Project Manager, African American Leadership Project and Co-Convener, New Orleans Ward Organization Committee of the Millions More Movement

Sidney Shapiro, University Distinguished Chair in Law, Wake Forest University and Member Scholar, Center for Progressive Reform

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