Roger L. Green, Brooklyn, New York (NY Community Partners)

Roger L. Green is a former New York State legislator who served Brooklyn’s Assembly  District 57 in the New York State Assembly for 26 years. He was educated in the New  York City public school system and graduated from Southern Illinois University, where  he attained a triple major in Cultural Anthropology, International Affairs and  Government. After graduation and return to Brooklyn, he became involved in local politics, joining several civil rights groups and community organizations concerned with the elimination  of racism and social injustice. He was raised Baptist but converted to Islam in the early 1970s. In 2007,  shortly after the end of Green's term in the State Legislature, he was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer,  at Medgar Evers College and is also the Director of the Dubois-Bunche Center on Public Policy, a think  tank dedicated to advancing best practices in law, policy, and community covenants that advance social  and economic justice for urban communities within the U.S. and throughout the African Diaspora. Roger  Green is married to labor rights and human rights advocate, Coraminita Mahr, has three children and  one grandchild.