Dominique Day

Executive director, DAYLIGHT

Dominique Day sits on the U.N Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, one of the Special Procedures of the U.N. Human Rights Council responsible for investigations and fact-finding on the situation of people of African descent globally. Dominique is a human rights attorney and the executive director of DAYLIGHT. Internationally, her litigation, public policy, teaching, and capacity-building work over the past two decades has focused heavily on racial justice, non-discrimination, and human rights advocacy. She has extensive experience in criminal and civil litigation on behalf of individuals and communities within the Black diaspora, in addition to working on rule of law and access to justice issues in post-conflict and transitional States. Dominique maintains her legal practice as a partner with Beldock, Levine, & Hoffman, a civil rights law firm, where she focuses heavily on the stop-and-frisk litigation against the New York City Police Department. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a juris doctor from Stanford Law School.