Legal and Policy Manager, Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)

Carl Lipscombe is a Bronx-bred policy advocate, organizer, and attorney. Over the last 15 years, Carl has organized youth, students, and poor Black and immigrant communities; litigated on behalf of indigent criminal defendants and undocumented immigrants; and worked with grassroots organizations, worker centers, and unions to affect policy change on the local, state, and national levels. Carl studied public policy and planning at New York University, and received a B.A. in philosophy from Brooklyn College, and received a law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.