Daphne Felten-Green
Director of Programs, Not In Our Town; Founder and President, DSFG Solutions, LLC
2023
Daphne Felten-Green, JD, is an attorney, civil rights trainer, mediator, and facilitator of community dialogue around equity and justice issues. She is the Director of Programs at Not In Our Town (NIOT), a movement to stop hate, address bullying, and build safe, inclusive communities for all. Daphne is the Founder and President of DSFG Solutions, LLC, where she serves an expert trainer to law enforcement agencies on hate crimes laws and the impact on survivors and communities, and as a consultant mediator for the Divided Community Project (DCP) at the Ohio State University, Moritz School of Law where she assists communities to work collaboratively to resolve community conflicts and to build inclusive communities.
After nearly three decades as a public servant leader, Daphne retired from Federal Service in 2021. Her career included nearly 20 years at the U.S. Department of Justice where she held numerous positions, including: being one of the Founders of the DOJ’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and serving as its first Associate General Counsel; serving as Special Counsel at DOJ’s Office for Civil Rights at the Office of Justice Program where she investigated law enforcement (and other criminal justice agencies’) practices and assisted agencies in complying with civil rights laws; and serving as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel of DOJ’s Community Relations Service where she oversaw policy initiatives for use by the nationwide team of conciliators and mediators to address community conflict on varied civil rights bases. At the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Daphne served as the first Deputy Director the Office of Minority Women and Inclusion with a mission to advance Diversity Equity and Inclusion within the regulatory and financial services industry.
Daphne earned her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her B.A. from Westfield State University. She hails originally from Hartford, CT and has lived with her husband and son in the metro Washington, DC area for the past three decades.
The effort to eradicate hate requires the active participation of every component of our society, to include governments, the private sector, communities of faith and indeed every aspect of civil society. There is no more urgent task in front of us. The organizers of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit are doing the United States and the world an enormous service by tackling hatred and extremism with a focus on honest dialogue and conversation, genuine learning and practical solutions. This will not happen overnight, but the Pittsburgh community’s leadership in this effort is genuinely inspiring and motivating.
