Jason D. Williamson

Executive Director

Jason D. Williamson is the Executive Director of the National Center for Law and Economic Justice.

Before joining NCLEJ in August 2025, Jason served as Executive Director at the Center on Race, Inequality, and Law at NYU School of Law. Prior to NYU Law, he spent more than 10 years as a staff attorney and deputy director with the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project and served at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Jason began his legal career in New Orleans in the months following Hurricane Katrina, first as a staff attorney for the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, and later as a founding member of the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights (f.k.a. Juvenile Regional Services).

Jason also serves as an adjunct clinical professor at New York University School of Law. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Harvard University in 1998, his MA from University of Chicago in 1999, and his JD from NYU Law in 2006. Jason is a devout Rastafarian, loving husband, and proud father of twin daughters.