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D. Korbin Felder
Justice Fellow
D. Korbin Felder is a Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He is based in Jackson, Mississippi, and is part of the Southern Regional Office. His work focuses on advancing racial justice movements in the South and advocating on behalf of people within the criminal legal systems of the South. Prior to coming to the Center for Constitutional Rights, he spent years as an advocate challenging dangerous and unconstitutional conditions within prisons and jails. Before law school, he lived in Alabama and Michigan, where he worked on prison conditions, reentry, and parole issues with the Equal Justice Initiative and American Friends Service Committee. While in law school, Korbin worked with the Mississippi Center for Justice, Prison Law Office, and A New Way of Life Reentry Project. Korbin is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law and obtained a parallel M.A. from UCLA in African-American Studies. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. degree in History & Afroamerican and African Studies. Korbin clerked for the Honorable Carlton W. Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. He is a member of the Mississippi Bar and the Magnolia Bar Association.