Personal Bio
Lisa Daugaard is Co-Executive Director at Purpose Dignity Action (PDA), based in Seattle. She led PDA’s Racial Disparity Project, combatting racial discrimination in, and generated by, the criminal legal system at the height of mass incarceration, from 2000-2013. From 2001-2008, Lisa led a successful selective enforcement litigation challenge to drug arrests of Black people in Seattle. The settlement of that litigation effort resulted in a pilot pre-booking diversion framework for drug offenses, the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) model. Lisa was founding Co-Chair of the Seattle Community Police Commission. In 2019, she won a MacArthur Fellowship for work building consensus around community-based responses to illegal behavior related to unmet behavioral health needs and extreme poverty. Lisa was an anti-apartheid activist at Cornell in the mid-1980s, and obtained her JD from Yale Law School (class of 1992). She was a fellow at the ACLU National Legal Department, leading a successful challenge to the first US detention camp at Guantanamo (for HIV-positive Haitian asylum seekers); and Legal Director at the Coalition for the Homeless (New York City).
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