{"id":178463,"date":"2021-10-20T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=178463"},"modified":"2021-10-20T09:32:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:32:43","slug":"state-naacp-honors-uconn-law-dean-eboni-s-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/10\/state-naacp-honors-uconn-law-dean-eboni-s-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"State NAACP Honors UConn Law Dean Eboni S. Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut NAACP will honor UConn Law Dean Eboni S. Nelson on Saturday as one of the 100 Most Influential Blacks in Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson took office as dean of the UConn School of Law on July 31, 2020, the first Black person to hold that post on a permanent basis. In addition to navigating the School of Law through much of the pandemic and negotiating the return to in-person instruction this fall, Nelson has overseen several new initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Under Nelson&#8217;s leadership, the law school has expanded its Master of Laws programs with a new LLM degree in Governance, Risk Management and Compliance; established the Constance Belton Green Diversity Fund to support diversity, racial and social justice initiatives; and engaged in an ambitious philanthropy drive to mark the law school&#8217;s centennial. The law school has also launched a new website during her tenure and will engage in the coming year in a strategic planning process.<\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches will honor Nelson and other Black leaders with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctnaacp.org\/tickets\">reception<\/a> on Saturday at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, featuring a keynote address from Rob Rooks, chief executive officer of the Reform Alliance. A special performance by hip-hop artist Nas will follow the reception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am truly honored and humbled to receive this recognition,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cBecause of the NAACP\u2019s fight for justice and civil rights, I along with my fellow honorees have been afforded opportunities that we otherwise would not have had. For that, I thank the NAACP, and I congratulate all honorees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nelson earned her JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in psychology from Wake Forest University. She currently serves on the Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Hartford Board of Trustees and the Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity Board of Directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eboni S. Nelson, the first Black person to serve as dean of the UConn School of Law on a permanent basis, has launched several new initiatives at the law school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":175277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1857],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1856],"class_list":["post-178463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 02:46:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178471,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178463\/revisions\/178471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/175277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178463"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=178463"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=178463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}