Todd Belcore is a six-time national award-winning lawyer, mediator, advocate, law lecturer and non-profit co-founder with over 20 years of experience fighting for economic, social, and racial equity worldwide.Todd is the Executive Director of Social Change-a national non-profit committed to liberation, amplifying community voices, and disrupting legacies of systemic injustice through storytelling, organizing, and direct action.In addition to the disruptive liberation work Todd engages in at Social Change, Todd also consults organizations, businesses, and government entities on ways to ensure their modus operandi promotes economic, social, and racial equity inside and outside of the workplace.Todd also makes an impact in the equity space by mediating disputes (resolving everything from small claims in the courts to claims of discrimination against large financial firms) and teaching students how to transform systems to make them equity-centered via a class entitled, "The New Jim Crow" (taught at Northwestern Law and University of Chicago Law School).To date, Todd has been able to: - Lead or assist in efforts to pass 30 measures in multiple states relating to policing, prison reform, increasing government transparency and accountability, equity in the cannabis industry, and access to justice, well-paying jobs, housing, education, and business ownership; - Provide legal assistance to over 1,000 men and women; - Train over 1,000 attorneys, advocates, and community members nationwide on their civil rights (and how to protect them), how to impact the systems that impact their lives, and how to access the new legal remedies advocated for by Social Change and beyond that increase access to justice, opportunity and business ownership; and, - Write various works relating to promoting equity and increasing access to justice and opportunity that have been published in places like the HuffingtonPost and the White House blog
Listed skills include Mediation, Negotiation, Litigation, Community Outreach, and 28 others.