Southern Poverty Law Center names Ryan Haygood president and CEO

By: Ralph Chapoco

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: June 18, 2026

Words: 336

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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The Southern Poverty Law Center announced on Tuesday that it had hired Ryan P. Haygood as the organization’s next president and CEO.

Haygood is a civil rights attorney who currently serves as CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, a racial justice organization based in Newark.

“At this defining moment, when our country desperately needs both the courage to resist and the vision to construct what has never existed before, the SPLC board …

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