Dr. Marsha Jean-Charles

Dr. Marsha Jean-Charles is the Organizing Manager of Eastern New York at the New York Civil Liberties Union. In this role, she manages the organizing portfolios in Long Island and the Hudson Valley.

A Brooklyn born and raised Haitian-American, Black feminist scholar-organizer — Marsha believes that sociopolitical education; evidence-based practices; strategic goals; and sustainable culture shifts can empower people to transform systems of oppression in their workplaces, schools, and communities. In centering race and class equity as well as immigrant and gender justice in her abolitionist pedagogical knowledge facilitation and movement building efforts, she aims to promote meaningful diversity, equity, justice, and inclusion in systems and places designed to be otherwise.

Inspired by the cosmologies and revolutionary politics catalyzed by marginality, decolonial migration, disenfranchisement, and demosprudence, Marsha works to help youth and community liberate themselves.

Prior to working at NYCLU, Marsha was the inaugural Director of Organizing at The Brotherhood Sister Sol. Marsha received her Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Cornell University; her M.A. in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Columbia University; and her B.A. in African American Studies from Wesleyan University.