Our Team

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​Our Founders

​The Remedy Project was founded by David Simpson, who spent 10 years in federal prison learning the administrative remedy process and made it his personal mission to continue that advocacy on the outside. Alongside David, The Remedy Project is co-directed by Anna Sugrue, a recent Barnard College graduate who met David in a Columbia University Center for Justice class in the fall of 2018, while she was an undergraduate and he was a Justice-in-Education scholar. Led by David’s vision and expertise and assisted by Anna’s management experience and university connections, they launched the Remedy Project (then known at the Student Justice League) in January 2020.​

Our Student Advocates

Colin Adams

Edie Conekin-Tooze

Annaliese Rozos

Nilu Cooper

Andrea Schlitt
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Kate McGrath

Hannah Lin
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Grey Berkowitz

Rayna Berggren

Sophia Macomber

Ally Ni
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​Niharika Rao

Our Lawyer

​Tolu Lawal graduated from NYU Law in the Class of 2019 and is currently working as a Racial Justice Legal Fellow with the New York City Commission on Human Rights. While at NYU, she focused her vocational and extracurricular efforts on racial justice advocacy. She has served as the Co-Chair of BALSA, a 3L Representative with SBA and BALSA, a founding member of the Campus Climate and Bias Committee, and one of the lead organizers of Racism Lives Here Too. She also has interned at the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law, the ACLU Racial Justice Project and the Juvenile Defenders Clinic. She is currently an organizer with Unlock the Bar. At The Remedy Project, Tolu directs legal correspondence with Project clients.

Board of Directors

David Simpson
Anna Sugrue
Melvin Lowe
Dr. Christia Mercer
Clover Perez
Valeria Saladino
Natalia Vasylyk