Rakim H.D. Brooks
Rakim H.D. Brooks is the president of Alliance for Justice and a public interest appellate lawyer. He is committed to a judiciary that reflects the nation’s diversity and the U.S. Constitution’s promise of a more perfect union.
Brooks garnered a reputation as an innovative strategist, policy thinker and legal advocate in his previous role as campaign manager for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Systemic Equality agenda. Earlier, Brooks was an associate attorney at the Susman Godfrey law firm. There, he sued opioid manufacturers, worked to free citizens incarcerated in Dallas prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic and filed a Supreme Court amicus brief defending the right of consumers to have an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Brooks served as a member of the Biden-Harris transition team, after previously serving as a policy adviser for the Treasury Department during the Obama administration. He began his career as a C. Edwin Baker Fellow at the progressive think tank Demos and currently serves on the advisory board of Brown University’s Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. He is a board member of Getting Out and Staying Out in his native East Harlem.
He has a Bachelor of Arts in Africana studies from Brown University and a Master of Philosophy in politics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. Brooks earned his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School and a Master of Business Administration from the Yale School of Management.
