From one good cause to another one

North Carolina’s criminal justice advocacy community is losing a one of its best advocates with the departure of Charmaine Fuller Cooper (that’s her earlier this month at the ACLU’s Frank Porter Graham Dinner where she received the Paul Green Award along with Jeremy Collins of the N.C. Coalition for a Moratorium for their work on the Racial Justice Act).

Cooper, current Executive Director of the Carolina Justice Policy Center – a Durham-based nonprofit dedicated to reform of the criminal justice and corrections systems (and a regular contributor to NC Policy Watch and the Progressive Pulse), is leaving to head up a new state-funded effort known as the North Carolina Justice for Victims of Sterilization Foundation.

Let’s hope her work for sterilization victims meets with as much success (or even more) than did her great work for criminal justice reform. Lord knows, it’s a cause that’s been ignored far too long.

Good luck, Charmaine! Give ‘em heck!