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  Adjoa A. Aiyetoro is a former Convener of NCBL-DC.  She is actively engaged in the work of the chapter.  She leads our Unhoused Project, serving as a volunteer with the homeless encampment monitoring program of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless.  She also represents the NCBL DC Chapter on the #NoNewJails committee that is developing proposals for alternatives to incarceration and, following the path of Critical Resistance, articulating strategies to prevent the need for incarceration. 

Attorney Amos Jones, current Co-convener, has practiced law in Washington, D.C., since 2007 and for seven of those years was a full-time professor of law teaching Contracts, Ethics, and History of the Black American Lawyer. He joined the National Conference of Black Lawyers in 2018, following in the footsteps of his late uncle Louis Clayton Jones, a charter member of the national organization fifty years earlier. Amos said he joined and leads in the organization in order "to foster the actual liberation of African-Americans as the community faces emerging threats that only thoughtful lawyering can address." He has helped to direct chapter initiatives that took members before the public to educate the greater Washington region on topics including voting rights and reparations. His private practice serves employees who have been wronged in the workplace. A 2006 graduate of the Harvard Law School, a 2006-07 Fulbright Scholar in Australia, and an ordained Baptist deacon, Amos is Super Lawyers-rated and in 2019, at 41 years old, was awarded the Albert M. Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from the publishers of Who's Who in America for his noteworthy accomplishments in the legal profession. 

Attorney Deidra L. McEachern, a current Co-convener and former Secretary for NCBL-DC heads up NCBL-DC's campaign to educate and aid individuals in voting rights and responsibilities and the importance of doing so.  Attorney McEachern is also NCBL-DC's National Board Representative.  She has worked with political prisoners and has successfully represented victims of racial discrimination in the workplace, obtaining six-figure judgments and settlements on their behalves.  For several years. Attorney McEachern, hosted her own internet television show on Listenvisionlive.com, "This Legal Diva".  She has also made appearances on other progressive show such as, "Culture, Class, and Consciousness," with Jeanette Pollard, and "Crossroads" with Roach Brown.  

 As Co-convener of NCBL-DC one of her goals is to educate our people about things that impact our lives in ways that they may not realize.  She knows there is power in information.  Once educated we as a people can use that information to  help us take actions to better control our destiny.