Cristóbal Joshua Alex and Tanene Allison

Josh is the Campaign Coordinator for the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights. He is responsible for rolling out strategic campaigns in national and international forums, building alliances, and overseeing media and communication efforts. Josh joined the campaign after practicing civil rights law with MacDonald Hoague & Bayless, the leading civil rights firm in the Northwest. During that time Josh focused his practice on police and governmental misconduct, including important cases dealing with prisoner rights, police shootings, discrimination, and the constitutionality of various state laws.

Josh was the student body president at the University of Washington School of Law, and led rallies and marches opposing Anti-Affirmative Action initiatives. He helped organize successful legislative campaigns to give undocumented students access to higher education, and fund an unprecedented $40 million in farm-worker housing. Following law school Josh served as the youngest president in the history of the Latina/o Bar Association, and brought attention to standardized testing systems that disproportionately impact people of color, and led voter registration drives. While serving as chair of the Diversity Committee, Josh developed the Pathways to Law mentorship program that pairs community college students of color with attorneys of color -- the first of its kind in the country. Josh also co-founded and chaired the Farm Worker Justice Project and the Latino Political Action Committee.

Josh has received the Outstanding Young Lawyer Award, El Centro de la Raza's Leadership Award, was a recipient of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund Scholarship and is consistently named "rising star" in the area of constitutional law by Washington Law and Politics. He is admitted to the United States District Court in the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States, and was recently appointed chair of the Civil Rights Section of the Hispanic National Bar Association.

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Tanene Allison is the Media Campaign Coordinator at the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights. Previously Tanene worked at MTV, where she was a coordinator of Think MTV, MTV'S on-air, online and grassroots pro-social campaign. Prior to her work at MTV, Tanene worked as an organizer, educator and advisor on a range of social justice issues, including equal access to health care, homeless policies, and lesbian and gay rights.

Tanene completed her Masters in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. While at Harvard, Tanene edited the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, and was awarded a Point Foundation Uncommon Legacies Scholarship. Her undergraduate studies were at San Francisco State University.

Tanene has received a Women's World Leaders Fellowship, which allowed her to study the role of women in South Africa's anti-Apartheid movement and in the country's new government. She has published her work a in a wide range of places, from The Harvard Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Law Review, to a June Jordan Poetry for the People anthology. Tanene is always looking for new ways to merge policy, the law, music and art, in the work for social justice.