Stephen Manning

Attorney Stephen W. Manning is a human rights lawyer by day, occasional professor of law, dabbler in legal scholarship, and founder and director of the Innovation Law Lab, a non-profit that combines technology and litigation to create next generation activism against mass incarceration of refugees and immigrants. Mr. Manning has received multiple awards, including the 2015 Founders Award for the person who had the most impact on immigration policy, the 2010 Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for Excellence in Immigration Litigation, and is a Bill & Ann Shepard Law Scholar. He is a former Commissioner for the City of Portland’s Human Rights Commission. He is on the Board of Directors of Health Bridges International, a nonprofit supporting developing nation healthcare, and the Northwest Speak Out Project, a nonprofit engaged in community-based education on sexual minorities.