Daphne Felten-Green
Founder and President, DSFG Solutions, LLC
2023, 2024, 2025
Daphne Felten-Green, is an attorney, civil rights trainer, mediator, and facilitator of community dialogue around equity and justice issues. 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. She also serves as a consultant mediator for the Divided Community Project (DCP) at the Ohio State University, Moritz School of Law and a consultant senior advisor to Not in Our Town (NIOT). In addition to training law enforcement, her work also involves assisting communities to work collaboratively to prevent, respond and report hate crimes and hate incidents; to resolve division and conflict, 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 Programs where she
enforced civil rights laws and compliance by funded law enforcement agencies; and served as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel of DOJ’s Community Relations Service (CRS) 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 family in the metro Washington, DC area for the past three decades.
My network of professionals working on countering hate in all its forms grew exponentially after attending Eradicate Hate in 2021. The myriad voices represented at Eradicate Hate, from big tech companies to academic researchers to those with lived experience, reinforced to me the importance of cross-cutting and collaborative approaches to counter hate and its devastating impacts on society. I’ve been fortunate to sustain and build those networks with many of those I met at Eradicate Hate in 2021.
