[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 41 (Monday, March 2, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E243]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HONORING NSOMBI LAMBRIGHT-HAYNES

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                        HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 2, 2020

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor a 
worthy member of our society, Mrs. Nsombi Lambright-Haynes.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing Mrs. 
Nsombi Lambright-Haynes. Nsombi Lambright-Haynes is the Executive 
Director of One Voice, a statewide leadership development and policy 
advocacy organization, headquartered in Jackson, MS. The goal of One 
Voice is to build leadership in an effort to address structural 
oppressions that show up in the institutions that are significant in 
the lives of families, including the public education system, voting, 
the environment, and the criminal justice system.
  Before beginning her role at One Voice, Nsombi Lambright-Haynes 
served as the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union 
(ACLU) of Mississippi for eight years. Under her leadership, the ACLU 
challenged the state's prison system, the denial of voting rights for 
people with felony convictions, and a number of schools to prison 
pipeline cases. The ACLU also led several LGBTQ cases during her time 
there.
  Nsombi Lambright-Haynes serves on the City of Jackson's Civil Service 
Commission and Criminal Justice Taskforce and served on the transition 
teams of Jackson Mayors, Chokwe Lumumba and Chokwe Antar Lumumba.
  She has received several honors including the Chokwe Lumumba Award 
for Advancing Social Justice (2019) the Fannie Lou Hamer Humanitarian 
Award (2012) and the Young Women in the NAACP Award (2008).
  Nsombi Lambright-Haynes is a 1994 graduate of Tougaloo College (B.A. 
English-Journalism) and a 1996 graduate of Jackson State University 
(Master of Public Policy and Administration).
  Nsombi Lambright-Haynes sits on the boards of the Center for 
Constitutional Rights, the National Network for Justice and the 
Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative. She is a member of Alpha 
Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and is also a Life Member of the Jackson 
Branch of the NAACP. She worships at Christ The King Catholic Church in 
Jackson.
  She is the mother of an adult son, Julian Lambright and resides in 
Jackson with her husband, Joseph Christopher Haynes.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing Mrs. 
Nsombi Lambright-Haynes.

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