Brannelly, Kevi

Position

Development Director

Biography

Kevi Brannelly has been with the Center for Constitutional Rights since 2004. Her fundraising background includes over ten years as Alumni Relations Director, at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and Golden Gate University School of Law. As alumni director she was responsible recruiting and stewardship alumni donors. Major responsibilities included planning alumni  events including the annual alumni weekend, continuing legal education programs, publications and coordinating alumni programs with the annual fund and major gift officers.  She is the former co-director of the National Office of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG, 1996-2000) where she was primarily responsible for membership development and services, organizational administration and for the annual convention. Kevi served on the board of the NYC NLG Street Law Project, a Know Your Rights (KYR) program, where she was responsible for fundraising as well as direct participation in the program by facilitating trainings, teaching workshops on police misconduct, Fourth Amendment, housing, and employment law. She was the chapter president of the Bay Area Chapter of the NLG, where she co-founded the Mentorship and Post-9/11 committees and served on the Mass Defense, CLE, Progressive Law Student Day, Media, and Fundraising committees. Kevi has volunteered on many local and state-wide initiative campaigns, on issues ranging from strengthening civilian complaint boards on police misconduct investigations to housing rights for low-income renters in Oakland, California. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon Law School (’95) and admitted to practice in New York State.