Antonio Lavalle Ingram II serves as Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where he works on educational equity cases. Mr. Ingram serves as lead counsel in Simon et al v. Ivey et al., challenging Alabama’s SB 129, prohibiting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in public colleges and universities. Mr. Ingram also Co-authored a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief in 303 Creative v. Elenis where he opposed intersectional anti-Black and anti-LGBTQIA+ public accommodations discrimination. In addition to his litigation work, Mr. Ingram successfully engaged in policy advocacy and spearheaded a campaign to oppose legislation banning critical race theory, tenure and diversity, equity and inclusion through implementing media strategies, organizing faculty and students and submitting both written and oral testimony before the Texas House and Texas State Senate. At the federal level, Mr. Ingram has briefed the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce about the discrimination that Black university students face on college campuses in Texas and Alabama. Mr. Ingram also represented parents and students in an administrative complaint before the Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, involving Title VI and Title IX hostile environment claims in Southlake, Texas. Mr. Ingram is a Racial Justice Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights for the 2025-2026 academic year where he serves as a thought leader for issues regarding racial inequality in educational and political systems. Mr. Ingram received his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law and B.A. from Yale College and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ivan L.R. Lemelle on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Between his federal clerkships, Mr. Ingram served as a Fulbright Public Policy Fellow to Malawi where he served as a special assistant in Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau. Mr. Ingram is a member of the California, District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court bar.

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