Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. serves as Executive Director at a racial justice law center based in New York City. She is an author, activist and attorney with a longstanding commitment to racial and social justice. She also hosts the Lurie Daniel Favors Show on Sirius XM’s Urban View Network, a national talk show that tackles issues of race, culture, gender, identity, politics and the law and its accompanying podcast, Lurie Breaks it Down. Ms. Daniel Favors earned her J.D. from New York University, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar.

She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BA in African and African American Studies, with a Minor in Spanish Language. Ms. Daniel Favors is a contributing author to The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement and she wrote Afro State of Mind: Memories of a Nappy Headed Black Girl, a book that uses a natural hair journey as a metaphor for understanding the Black experience in the West.

After graduating from New York University School of Law, Ms. Daniel Favors began her legal career as an attorney in the New York offices of Proskauer Rose LLP and Manatt Phelps and Phillips, LLP and served as a federal court law clerk in the chambers of the Honorable Sterling Johnson, Jr., in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She later founded Daniel Favors Law PLLC, a law firm that focused on economic and racial justice.

Before completing law school, Ms. Daniel Favors co-founded Sankofa Community Empowerment, Inc., a non-profit organization designed to educate and empower communities of African descent. She later co-founded Breaking the Cycle Consulting Services LLC, which specializes in creating comprehensive professional development for educators, youth education programs and family engagement workshops designed to address the crisis in urban education through the use of culturally responsive teaching.

Ms. Daniel Favors is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and adheres to the West African principle of Sankofa which calls us to use the past to understand the present and build for a brighter future.