THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The Attica Is All Of Us Organizing Committee is a diverse group that includes Attica survivors, their families, formerly incarcerated people, Attica lawyers, lawyers, law students, and members of various organizations listed on our Coalition page. Below is a growing list of our committee members. If you would like to join us, please get in touch.

  • Daniel Alterman, Attica trial lawyer for Indictment 10, tried 1975. NYC Civil rights lawyer 1969-2020.

  • Beena Ahmad, Attorney, National Lawyers Guild NYC

  • Nadia Ben-Youssef

  • Robert J. Boyle

  • Elena Cohen, President, National Lawyers Guild

  • Emani Davis

  • Michael Deutsch, Lawyer with Attica Brothers Legal Defense (ABLD) and co-counsel in class action civil damage suit

  • Soffiyah Elijah

  • Elizabeth Gaynes

  • Emily Jane Goodman

  • Joseph Heath

  • Michael Hull, Filmmaker and Archivist

  • Larry Killabrew, Attica Brother

  • Emily Kunstler, Filmmaker

  • Sarah Kunstler, Attorney, National Lawyers Guild NYC

  • Tyrone Larkins, Attica Brother

  • Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Attorney, National Lawyers Guild NYC

  • Daniel Meyers, September 13, 1974 drafted and filed the Attica Brothers federal class action civil rights lawsuit, Akil Al-Jundi v. Rockefeller. 1974-2001 member of the Attica Brothers legal team that sued Rockefeller and other officials for their complicity during and after the Attica Massacre. Presently celebrating, in solidarity, 50 years of Attica Brothers support work. Former President NYC Chapter National Lawyers Guild.

  • Jaqueline McLeod

  • Allyson Moralez, University of Michigan Research Assistant

  • Five Mualimm-ak, President of Incarcerated Nation Network, INC.

  • Che Nieves, Attica Brother

  • Gideon Oliver, Attorney, National Lawyers Guild NYC

  • Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Attica trial lawyer on Indictment 1, member, National Lawyers Guid NYC

  • Jared Reinmuth

  • Sheila Rule

  • Alhajji Sharif, Attica Brother, Co-founder/Outreach Coordinator of the Attica Improvement and Memorial Project

  • Lewis Steel

  • Martin Stolar, Attorney, National Lawyers Guild, NYC

  • Heather Ann Thompson, Historian and author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy

  • Alex Tichane

  • Albert Victory, Attica Brother

  • Lewis Webb, Jr.

  • Eddie LeShure, Attica Brother