Nkechi Taifa
Nkechi Taifa is a civil and human rights attorney, scholar-activist, talk show host, and author. She is Executive Director of the Reparation Education Project, President of The Taifa Group LLC, and is a Power, Innovation and Leadership graduate of Harvard Kennedy School. A visionary thought leader and nationally recognized expert and commentator on race and justice issues, Taifa is Convener Emeritus of the Justice Roundtable Coalition and serves on the board of the Corrections Information Council. She is a past Commissioner and Chair of the D.C. Commission on Human Rights.
Taifa has worked for the Open Society Foundations, Howard University School of Law, the ACLU, Women’s Legal Defense Fund, National Prison Project, and as an attorney in private practice. She has testified before the United States Congress, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the U.S. Helsinki Commission, the DC City Council, the Maryland Legislature, the California Reparations Task Force and the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
Nkechi delivered a powerful TEDx talk, “Reparations, An Issue Whose Time Has Come,” and scripted a 101 video “Reparations: From Concept to Reality.” A native Washingtonian, Nkechi is the author of the best-seller memoir,
Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice, and the author of several books for children. Her most recent best-seller,
Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America, has been described as “part historical analysis, part revolutionary manifesto, and part political red-alert.”
In addition to her five published books, Nkechi Taifa is the author of scores of scholarly works, including law review articles, book chapters and white papers. She has been featured in major print and electronic media and has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including Essence Magazine’s WOKE 100 Black Women Advocating for Change.
