Dwayne A Nash

Nash is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University in the department of African American Studies. He attended Middlebury College, Boston College Law School and the London School of Economics. He was appointed an Assistant District Attorney in New York City. There he prosecuted thousands of cases, including complaints against the police for brutality in the Grand Jury and New York Supreme Court. In addition, as an attorney Dwayne was awarded the Racial Justice Fellowship at the American Civil Liberties Union. At the ACLU, he represented victims of voting rights violations and racial profiling in federal courts. It was at the ACLU that Dwayne first developed his current academic research, which explores the origins and social impact of New York’s stop-and-frisk (S&F) law and other criminal procedures that adversely impacted people color in New York City during the 1960s. While juxtaposing the S&F legislation with narratives of the Civil Rights Movement., Nash also draws a connection between the new law and a development of Mass Criminalization of citizens that was much earlier than scholars suggested, which ultimately led to a Carceral state.