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'''Esmeralda Simmons''' is a civil rights attorney and executive director of the [[Center for Law and Social Justice]] at [[Medgar Evers College]] in [[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Staff |url=http://www.clsj.org/staff/#simmons |website=Center for Law and Social Justice |accessdate=16 February 2019}}</ref> Simmons founded the center in 1986.<ref name="bkreader30">{{cite news |title=Civil Rights Attorney Esmerelda Simmons Looks Back on 3 Decades of Groundbreaking Work for Social Justice |url=https://www.bkreader.com/2016/09/22/civil-rights-attorney-esmerelda-simmons-looks-back-3-decades-groundbreaking-work-social-justice/ |accessdate=16 February 2019 |work=BKReader |date=22 September 2016}}</ref> In 2014, she was named a New York State Woman Of Distinction,<ref name="heroaward">{{cite web |title=Esmeralda Simmons |url=https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/articles/velmanette-montgomery/esmeralda-simmons |website=The New York State Senate |accessdate=16 February 2019}}</ref> and in 2018 she received the Haywood Burns Award from the New York State Bar Association.<ref name="haywoodburnseagle">{{cite news |last1=Abruzzese |first1=Rob |title=Attorney honored for work with Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers |url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2018/12/06/attorney-honored-for-work-with-center-for-law-and-social-justice-at-medgar-evers/ |accessdate=16 February 2019 |work=Brooklyn Eagle |date=6 December 2018}}</ref> |
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Simmons has served in "public services" at the city, state, and federal levels: in the [[Office for Civil Rights]] in the [[U.S. Department of Education]], as an assistant Attorney General for the state of New York, as the first deputy state commissioner of human rights for New York state, and as the vice chairman of a New York city commission for redrawing city council district lines. In 1993, she was appointed to the [[New York City Board of Education]] by mayor [[David Dinkins]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barbanel |first1=Josh |title=Dinkins Names Civil Rights Lawyer to Fill Out Gotbaum Term on Board of Education |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/30/nyregion/city-dinkins-names-civil-rights-lawyer-fill-gotbaum-term-board-education.html |accessdate=16 February 2019 |work=New York Times |date=30 November 1993 |ref=nytboeappt}}</ref> |
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== Early life and education == |
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Raised in Brooklyn by parents who had immigrated from [[St. Croix]] in the [[Virgin Islands]], Simmons cites the "culture shock" of moving from public housing in a predominantly Black neighborhood to a majority white area as an influence in her pursuit of civil and racial justice work.<ref name="amsterdamprofile">{{cite news |last1=Abdul-Aleem |first1=Maryam |title=Esmeralda Simmons: 'Staying on course for freedom and justice' for her community |url=http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2011/apr/12/esmeralda-simmons-staying-on-course-for-freedom/ |accessdate=16 February 2019 |work=New York Amsterdam News |date=12 April 2011}}</ref> |
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She is a graduate of [[Hunter College]] of the [[CUNY|City University of New York]], and [[Brooklyn Law School]], and was a Revson Fellow at [[Columbia University]].<ref name="bkreader30" /><ref>{{cite web |title=CLSJ 30th Anniversary Celebration Honoree: Esmeralda Simmons, Esq. |url=http://www.clsj.org/anniversary-gala/30th-anniversary-honoree-esmeralda-simmons/ |website=Center for Law and Social Justice |accessdate=16 February 2019}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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