Camara Stokes Hudson
Camara Stokes Hudson (she/they) serves as Racial Justice Counsel at NYCLU. She joined the organization in 2022 as a member of the Education Policy Center. At NYCLU, Camara focuses on a range of racial justice issues with a special interest in the intersection between racial justice and children’s rights. Her current projects and docket primarily focus on student expression, infrastructure justice, school climate, and school governance. As part of NYCLU’s Racial Justice Center, Camara supports the effort to restore, uplift, and work alongside Black, Indigenous, and people of color, through traditional and movement lawyering.
Camara holds a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Vermont (UVM) and a J.D. from NYU Law. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Washington, D.C., Camara’s passion for social justice was ignited early. As a young leader in Black Youth Vote!, she coordinated GOTV efforts in the DC-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area during the 2012 and 2016 election cycles. During her time at UVM, Camara worked as both a reading specialist and a debate coach at a local juvenile facility.
At NYU Law, she was a Derrick Bell Scholar, an Arthur G. Hays Fellow, the Public Interest Chair of BALSA, the Colloquium Editor of the NYU Review of Law and Social Change, and Co-Chair of the Suspension Representation Project. Before law school, Camara worked at Connecticut Voices for Children as an organizer and state lobbyist, focusing on child welfare, juvenile justice, and education equity campaigns.
Camara has been recognized as a Connecticut Women’s Legal and Education Fund Woman of Inspiration and UVM Alumni ’30 Under 30′. In her spare time, Camara volunteers as a reading tutor with Read718, frequents the Brooklyn Museum, and is a dedicated plant parent.