By Greg Hazley
The Southern Poverty Law Center has hired Dana Vickers Shelley as public affairs director. She was deputy press secretary for former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown during President Bill Clinton's first term.
Shelley also served as director of strategic communications for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which works to improve the lives of poor children and their families.
She also has counseled the NAACP National Voter Fund and Democratic National Committee.
Shelley is a member of the National Assn. of Black Journalists and the Native American Journalist Assn.
Founded in 1971, the SPLC fights bigotry and discrimination from its headquarters in Montgomery and offices in Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans and Jackson.
It is headed by Richard Cohen.
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