Dawn Luedtke graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, and from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2000, where she served on the Maryland Law Review, Moot Court Board, and as a member of the Mock Trial Team. She served as the first law clerk to the Hon. Lynne A. Battaglia, Maryland Court of Appeals. After twelve years in private litigation practice, Dawn joined the Office of the Attorney General in 2013, where she serves as Counsel to the Maryland Center for School Safety, Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center, and Active Assailant Interdisciplinary Work Group, and works on hate crimes and hate bias community outreach initiatives and law enforcement training.
Nadeen Saqer is an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Section of the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Nadeen received her J.D., cum laude, from American University’s Washington College of Law, her M.A. from American University’s School of International Service and her undergraduate degree from Tulane University. She joined OAG after clerking on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Erin E. Wilson has extensive policy, legislative, analytic, and interagency experience in the US Government’s executive and legislative branches—Capitol Hill, NCTC, State, DHS, DoD—and is a leading expert in the field of countering hate and violent extremism. For nearly 20 years she drove U.S. Government policy goals related to preventing hate, violent white supremacy, and other forms of extremism while promoting civil rights and racial and social justice. She currently serves the Director of The People v. Hate: Standing Up for Humanity, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine’s Presidential Initiative to Counter Hate during his tenure as President of the National Association of Attorneys General. She also serves as a Senior Policy Advisor on efforts to counter hate and further racial and social justice in the District.