“Our commitment to justice must be impact and integrity-driven.”
founder + director | dday@daylyt.org | +1.917.832.5937
Dominique Day holds over twenty years’ experience promoting intersectional racial equity. Her interdisciplinary approach leverages law, policy, social science research, and more toward building understanding and demand for accountability and transformative change. She is the chair of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, a fact-finding body mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate and report on the situation of people of African descent globally. She also is a member of the 2020-21 Global Future Council on Human Rights of the World Economic Forum. Internationally, Dominique’s policy and capacity-building work focuses heavily on racial equity and intersectional racial justice, particularly relating to people of African descent. She is a civil rights and human rights attorney and has extensive criminal and civil litigation experience on behalf of individuals and communities within the Black diaspora, including in post-conflict and transitional States. She graduated with honors from Harvard University with an undergraduate concentration in Social Studies and obtained her juris doctor from Stanford Law School. Her work is characterized by a fierce belief in communities’ potential and a commitment to promoting strong rule of law and an inclusive access to justice.