anneke dunbar-gronke is a Skadden Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law as a Skadden Fellow for Fair Housing and Community Development. Their work centers on ensuring Black people in Baltimore can stay in their homes and building toward a future of permanently affordable housing and community control over housing and land. Prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee, anneke served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of the District Court for the District of Columbia. Before clerking, anneke worked as a Litigation Fellow at the plaintiff side employment firm Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP, where anneke worked primarily on race-based employment discrimination matters and on Miranda v. Barr, a case that ultimately held that immigration judges in all future Maryland bond hearings for individuals held in immigration detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) must consider ability to pay when setting release bond.

They graduated from Harvard Law School in 2019 and, while a law student, they served as an Articles Editor and organizer of the Prison Abolition Symposium at the Harvard Law Review, a Law and Social Change Fellow, co-chair of the Harvard Black Law Students Association’s (HBLSA) political action committee, a student attorney and Chair of Outreach with the student-led criminal defense organization Harvard Defenders, and a core organizer of the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign. Outside of the practice of law, anneke has previously worked with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies in New Orleans, LA. Additionally, they have organized with the New Orleans and Washington D.C. chapters of Black Youth Project 100, NOLA to Angola, and the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition. They currently serve on the steering committee for the Cherry Hill Food Coop, Baltimore Renters United, the executive committee of Renters United Maryland and the board of Beyond Binary Legal.