Melanca Clark is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hudson-Webber Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Clark held several positions in the Obama Administration, including Chief of Staff of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Senior Policy Advisor with the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Senior Counsel with DOJ’s Access to Justice Initiative.
Clark also served as Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice and was a John J. Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at the Gibbons law firm and a Skadden Fellow and Assistant Counsel with the Economic Justice Group of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. She has also served as a law clerk, adjunct professor, and litigation associate.
Clark serves as the Steering Committee Chair of the Michigan Justice Fund and on the boards of the Center for Employment Opportunities, the Council of Michigan Foundations, Downtown Detroit Partnership, Michigan Future Inc., the Michigan Center for Youth Justice, and the advisory board of LISC Detroit.
Clark earned her law degree from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree from Brown University.