Dan Merkle

Dan Merkle, Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice.

"Dan Merkle has been an attorney in Seattle for 20 years working on a wide range of social justice issues. Dan is a member of the Northwest Social Forum planning committee and the United States Social Forum committee. His most recent focus has been to highlight and address the race and class disparities and injustices in the criminal justice system in Washington State. He has convened several large community and professional events and currently chairs the Race and Class Disparity Task Force for the King County Bar Association Drug Policy Project. He is also a co-founder of the Independent Media Center."