Doug Lakey

Senior Director of Advocacy Programs

Douglas Lakey is the Senior Director of Advocacy Programs at Alliance for Justice.  He is responsible for strategic direction of the program as well as day-to-day oversight of operations.  Doug has a long and varied career at AFJ.  Before returning to Washington, DC in the summer of 2009, for over 2 years he was the Director of AFJ’s West Coast Office in Oakland, CA, where he managed AFJ’s west coast Advocacy Programs and did extensive program development and outreach to a wide variety of California community and advocacy groups.   His over 3-year stay in California also included a stint as a professional consultant, where he provided consulting services to California and national advocacy organizations on a variety of fundraising and organizational development issues.  Prior to working in California, he was the Development Director at AFJ where he helped grow and diversify the revenue base of the organization.  Doug is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (B.A. in Business) and has over 25 years of nonprofit management; in addition to his 10 years at Alliance for Justice, he spent 5 years at the senior management level with the Human Rights Campaign and 11 years as an administrator at the George Washington University Medical Center.