785 Simon Hall
510-642-4474
510-642-3728 (fax)
mlframpton@law.berkeley.edu
Mary Louise Frampton, director of the Henderson Center for Social Justice, has a long record of involvement in social justice issues. She recently retired from a Central Valley civil rights practice that focused on issues of discrimination in employment. Prior to the establishment of that firm in 1974, Frampton was the directing attorney of the Madera office of California Rural Legal Services. She was on the first board of directors of the California Women Lawyers Association, was the founder of the San Joaquin Valley Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and helped establish the first local chapter of the federal Inns of Court.
Frampton has been involved in a number of important social justice causes over the course of her career. In the 1970s she was instrumental in establishing National Land for People, an organization of small farmers and farm workers. As the group's lawyer, she won a series of landmark federal cases that forced the federal government and large agribusiness corporations to comply with the 160 acre limitation law and end the diversion of federally subsidized water away from small family farmers. Such victories enabled small farmers and farm workers to purchase desirable agricultural land and become economically independent. Frampton authored an article on that legal struggle for the UC Davis Law Review .
Frampton has represented several community coalitions, including a group of Latino, African-American and women's groups that increased diversity in hiring and programming in network and local television stations. The second-largest school district in the state was the target of several of Frampton's Title VII cases to enhance promotional opportunities for African-American educators. In the 1980s she obtained the largest economic damages figure in an employment case awarded by the Fair Employment and Housing Commission, and in the early 1990s she won the biggest verdict in a sex discrimination action in the Central Valley. She also represented women in their efforts to compel enforcement of Title IX at state universities and obtain slander damages against a prominent radio personality for his homophobic and misogynist attacks on women athletes. On appointment by the federal court in Sacramento, Frampton continues to represent two death row inmates in their federal habeas corpus actions.
In 2003 Frampton was named a National Bellow Scholar by the Public Interest Committee of the American Association of Law Schools. The award honors projects that involve law students and faculty in anti-poverty or access to justice work.
Education:
B.A., Brown University
J.D., Harvard University
Monique W. Morris, Director of Research, Senior Research Fellow
2440 Bancroft Way, Suite 209A
510-643-0121 (office)
510-643-2362 (fax)
mmorris@law.berkeley.edu
Monique W. Morris is the Henderson Center's Senior Research Fellow. Morris has over 15 years of professional and volunteer experience as an advocate in the areas of education, civil rights, juvenile justice, and social justice. Ms. Morris is the former director of the Discrimination Research Center, a nonprofit organization that combines research and public education to discuss the prevalence of discrimination in access to employment and public services. For several years, Morris led a number of research and strategic planning projects at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency to address racial and gender disparities in the criminal justice system. Her expertise on racial, gender, and cultural competencies have been documented in several local and national publications. Ms. Morris is the author of a novel, Too Beautiful for Words (Amistad Press) and a number of articles and book chapters on social justice and discrimination issues.
2440 Bancroft Way, Suite 209C
510-642-6395 (office)
510-643-2362 (fax)
msumner@law.berkeley.edu
Michael Sumner joined the Henderson Center in 2007 as a Research Fellow. He has over 10 years experience studying sex and race utilizing a multidisciplinary, social science approach. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1997 with Honors in Psychology and received his PhD in Social and Personality Psychology from New York University in 2003. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and was the Research Manager at the Discrimination Research Center. He has co-authored several peer-reviewed articles and other reports and presented his research findings at scientific meetings, governmental hearings, and to the general public. He has been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, received the Dean's Outstanding Student Teaching Award at NYU, and was a finalist for the New Investigator Award from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
Education: B.A., Rutgers College
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., New York University
2440 Bancroft Way, Suite 209
510-642-6386 (office)
510-643-2362 (fax)
jborja@law.berkeley.edu
Jessica Borja has been with the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice since July 2007 and is responsible for data management. Previously, she worked at the Discrimination Research Center where she co-authored a study measuring the impact of Proposition 209 on Minority Business Enterprises in California’s transportation construction industry. She also worked for two years at the University of California, San Francisco, where she served as a research assistant for an online smoking-cessation study and was responsible for community outreach and education for low-income residents of San Francisco’s Mission District. She is a 2005 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a double major in Psychology and Sociology.
Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley
897 Simon Hall
510-642-6969 (office)
510-642-3728 (fax)
melliott@law.berkeley.edu
Mary Elliott joined the Boalt staff in 2004, first as administrator of the Environmental Law Program and then of the California Center for Environmental Law and Policy. She now serves as the Henderson Center's Program Administrator. Before coming to Boalt, Elliott was a paralegal in the land use and environmental law sections of a San Francisco-based international law firm, served as a development director for a local nonprofit agency, and taught literature and composition at the University of Wisconsin and Sonoma State University.
Education: M.A., Stanford University
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
897 Simon Hall
510-643-5723 (office)
510-642-3728 (fax)
aceja@law.berkeley.edu
Ariana Ceja joined the Henderson Center in 2008. Before joining the
Henderson Center she worked for both the Vice President for Student
Services and the Director of Judicial Affairs at California State
University, Long Beach.
Education: M.S., Criminal Justice - California State University, Long Beach CA
B.A., Psychology - Humboldt State University, Arcata CA
785 Simon Hall
2440 Bancroft Way, Suite 209A
2440 Bancroft Way, Suite 209C
2440 Bancroft Way, Suite 209