Damon Hewitt
President & Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
2025
Damon T. Hewitt is the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. One of the nation’s foremost experts in civil rights litigation and policy, Hewitt has more than 20 years of experience, including prior leadership roles in the nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors.
Prior to joining Lawyers’ Committee, he was the inaugural executive director of the Executives’ Alliance for Boys and Men of Color and was the chief liaison from the philanthropic community to the White House on policy issues impacting young men of color. Hewitt previously worked for more than a decade as an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Hewitt joined the Lawyers’ Committee as Executive Vice President in 2019 and was named its President and Executive Director in 2021. Since then, he has led the organization victories on a range of critical issues, including affirmative action, race-conscious programs, and diversity, equity and inclusion; Election Protection and voter disinformation; redistricting; fair housing; algorithmic bias and artificial intelligence; and police accountability.
Hewitt’s work has been widely in a number of news outlets, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Bloomberg News, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and CBS. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Louisiana State University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
To me, Eradicate Hate was the most important gathering of 2021 for those of us who work on issues related to domestic extremism and organized hate. The Summit uniquely combined a variety of perspectives, including experts, civil society representatives, politicians and policymakers, and the families and loved ones of victims. Eradicate Hate has the important mission of standing against the rising tide of hate and extremism in our society, and it’s an honor to be able to support this mission.
