Lurie Daniel Favors, Executive Director, Center for Law and Social Justice
Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. serves as Executive Director at the Center for Law and Social Justice. She is an author, activist, and attorney with a long-standing commitment to racial and social justice. Ms. Daniel Favors earned her J.D. from New York University, where she was a Root-Tilden- Kern public interest scholar. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BA in African and African American Studies, with a Minor in Spanish Language. She hosts the Lurie Daniel Favors Show on Sirius XM’s Urban View Network, a national, daily talk show that tackles issues of race, gender, culture, politics and the law. Ms. Daniel Favors is a contributing author to The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement and she authored Afro State of Mind: Memories of a Nappy Headed Black Girl, which uses a natural hair journey as a metaphor for understanding the Black experience in the west.
She began her legal career as an attorney in the New York offices of Proskauer Rose LLP and Manatt Phelps and Phillips, LLP. She also served as a federal court law clerk in the chambers of the Honorable Sterling Johnson, Jr., in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She later founded Daniel Favors Law PLLC, a law firm that focused on economic and racial justice.
Before completing law school, Ms. Daniel Favors co-founded Sankofa Community Empowerment, Inc., a non-profit organization designed to educate and empower communities of African descent. She later co- founded Breaking the Cycle Consulting Services LLC, which specializes in creating comprehensive professional development for educators, youth education programs and family engagement workshops designed to address the crisis in urban education through the use of culturally responsive teaching. Ms. Daniel Favors adheres to the West African principle of sankofa and believes one must use the past to understand the present and build for a brighter future. You can follow her on LinkedIn, Twitter; Instagram; or Facebook.
Email: ldfavors@clsj.org
