Damon Hewitt is a Senior Advisor at the Open Society Foundation and Former Director of Education Practice at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Mr. Hewitt founded LDF’s “Dismantling the School-to-Prison Slime Tube” initiative, and has also coordinated LDF’s post-Hurricane Katrina litigation and advocacy efforts. A native of New Orleans, Mr. Hewitt attended Louisiana State University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.