Rahsaan Hall

Rahsaan Hall is the newly appointed Director of the Racial Justice Program for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. In this role Rahsaan will help develop an integrated advocacy approach to address racial justice issues. Through legislative advocacy, litigation and community engagement, the program will work on issues that deeply impact communities of color and historically disenfranchised communities.

Prior to joining the ACLU of Massachusetts Rahsaan was the Deputy Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice where his work included policy and legislative advocacy, community outreach, and maintaining a litigation caseload of voting rights, police misconduct and public accommodations cases. Rahsaan headed up the Voting Rights Project that included the coordination of the statewide Election Protection initiatives, voting rights litigation and his prior involvement in community coalitions on redistricting after the last decennial census.

He also served as an Assistant District Attorney for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. A significant portion of his work in the DA’s Office included his time in the Safe Neighborhood Initiative and Senior Trial Units where he prosecuted drug, gang and homicide cases.

In addition to leading the ACLU of Massachusetts’ Racial Justice Program, Hall is a member of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s Diversity Task Force. He also serves on the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation’s board of directors, the Hyams Foundation’s board of trustees, and co-chairs the Boston Bar Association’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties section. He is also a member of the Massachusetts IOLTA Committee.

Rahsaan is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University (B.A.), Northeastern University School of Law (J.D.) and Andover Newton Theological School (M.Div.). He is an ordained reverend in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.