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About CRC:
Meet Community Rights Counsel's
Board of Directors

Eldon ("Took") H. Crowell

Took is a founding partner of Crowell & Moring, a Washington DC-based law firm employing more than 270 lawyers. An authority on Government Contract and International Laws, he has written and lectured extensively on these subjects, and has represented foreign and domestic corporations in a wide range of problems, both in litigation and counseling, in the United States. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law and at The George Washington University National Law Center. Mr. Crowell was graduated from Princeton University, cum laude, and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law Review. A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, he is a member of the American, Federal, and District of Columbia bar associations. Mr. Crowell has served as a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He is a Fellow of the National Contract Management Association and the recipient of their 1992 Roback Award. He is the President of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Public Interest Law Fellowships for Equal Justice.

Veronica Eady Famira

Veronica is Associate General Counsel at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and an adjunct professor at Fordham University Law School. Prior to that, Veronica was general counsel at West Harlem Environmental Action, and an environmental lawyer and professor at Tufts University in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. She also served as Director of the Environmental Justice and Brownfields Programs for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. Ms. Eady is the former chair of EPA's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council. She sits on the Board of Directors for Earth Island Institute.

Douglas T. Kendall

Doug is Community Rights Counsel’s founder and Executive Director. As CRC's Executive Director, Doug has represented local government clients in state and federal appellate courts around the country and before the U.S. Supreme Court. Doug is also co-author of CRC's Takings Litigation Handbook: Defending Takings Challenges to Land Use Regulations (American Legal Publishing 2000). Doug received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia.

David Stern

David is the Executive Director of Equal Justice Works, a national coalition of public interest organizations that helps promote law careers in social justice. He graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1985 and clerked for two federal judges in Baltimore. He then worked for a small public interest law firm that represented whistleblowers in government and private industry, as well as individuals discriminated against on the basis of their sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, or age.

 

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