Lamar Richards

Lamar Richards serves as the Senior Director for Advocacy and Policy Engagement at the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development (CNHED) since November 2022, following a role as Director in the same area. Prior experience includes serving as an Election Protection Advocate at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice and a Researcher for the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. Additional positions include Government Relations Manager at the Adams Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Intern at Trident DMG, Summer Associate at Davis Goldberg & Galper PLLC, and Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress. Lamar Richards has also interned with the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project and held fellow and assistant roles at SECU and MDC. Educational background includes a Graduate Program in Political Science and Government from The Johns Hopkins University, a Bachelor of Arts in Human Organizational Leadership and Development and Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and participation in the IDDEAS Pre-Doctoral Program in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at MIT Sloan School of Management.