Board of Directors
Amanda Masters - Treasurer
Amanda Masters is a Senior Staff Attorney at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), a non-profit civil rights law firm. Masters supervises the Opportunity and Access Program at NYLPI, which uses a community-lawyering model to facilitate and organize the voices and ideas of separate community activists into broader collectives that reflect the values and priorities of the participants.
Masters has also litigated in the areas of racial justice and the rights of people with disabilities. Cases include litigation challenging the NYPD policies for interacting with people with disabilities, litigation to improve the supervision of staff who care for people with developmental disabilities in state-run homes, litigation to fight hospital and clinic closures in communities of color, and McKinney v. State of New York, a constitutional challenge that delayed the implementation of the mandate of the Berger Commission, which sought to shrink the hospital system in New York State without meaningful accountability to the public.
Masters founded the New York City Policing Roundtable (NYCPR), a coalition of private and non-profit litigators, community organizers, law students, and researchers who have come together to work collectively against police misconduct in New York City. The mission of NYCPR is to decrease NYPD misconduct by fostering community organizing, research, litigation, and public education. Current projects include community organizing in public housing to combat systemic police abuses.
In the past, Masters worked as an associate at Herbst & Greenwald LLP in New York where she focused on police brutality litigation.
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