Justin Hansford

Member, Board of Directors

Justin Hansford was born in NW Washington DC, and raised in the Washington DC. metro area.  After graduating from Howard University in 2003, Justin traveled to Brazil where he learned Portuguese and used music and the arts to teach English to high-risk Brazilian youth. Justin then returned to DC to attend Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown, Justin was a founding member of the Georgetown Journal of Global Critical Race Perspectives, a nationally published academic law journal. He also served as executive director for two years and was a founding member of the Global Race and Identity Project, a student organization that helps promote diversity at the law center. He also founded and managed an after school program at that uses the Hip Hop to teach literacy to teenage youth.

After graduating from law school, Justin worked with Imagine Southeast Public Charter School in Southeast DC. In this capacity, he provided development consultation, start up assistance, and legal advice to the school, which opened this past August. Justin then served as a staff member for Obama For America in Ohio. Justin then served as a Law Fellow at the University of Maryland School of Law Community Development Legal Clinic.　 He is currently a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.