Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq., the executive director at the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College was appointed to serve on the state Community Commission on Reparations Remedies.
The commission, formed through legislation signed in December 2023, is tasked with examining the legacy of slavery, subsequent discrimination against people of African descent and the impact these forces continue to have in the present day.
“As Americans, we have a solemn responsibility to reckon with our history and that includes understanding the painful legacy of slavery in New York,” Governor Kathy Hochul said. “We have assembled an extraordinary group of highly-qualified individuals to serve on the new Commission, and will review their final recommendations.”
The legislation established the community commission on reparations remedies, composed of nine members who are especially qualified to serve by virtue of their expertise, education, training, or lived experience in the fields of African or American studies, the criminal legal system, human rights, civil rights, reparations organizations and other relevant fields.
The commission includes Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq., the executive director at the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College. She is an author, activist and attorney with a long-standing commitment to racial and social justice. Daniel Favors earned her JD from New York University, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BA in African and African American Studies, with a Minor in Spanish Language.
Other members of the commission include: Jennifer Jones Austin, the CEO and executive director of FPWA, an anti-poverty policy and advocacy nonprofit, Timothy R. Hogues, the commissioner for the Department of Civil Service and president of the Civil Service Commission, Linda Brown-Robinson, the Immediate Past President of the Syracuse Onondaga NAACP, Darrick Hamilton, the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and the founding director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School, Linda Tarrant-Reid, an author, historian, freelance journalist, photographer and community activist, Seanelle Hawkins, the president of the Urban League of Rochester, Dr. Ron Daniels, founder of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) and Rev. Dr. Deborah D. Jenkins, the founding pastor of Faith @Work Christian Church, Coop City.