Steven Hawkins is a managing director at Flash Capital, responsible for deal sourcing, investment selection, due diligence, portfolio construction, and negotiation of funding agreements. Steve started his legal career clerking for the Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then spent nearly a decade litigating in state and federal courts on issues of jury discrimination and racial bias in capital cases, principally as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and later as Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Steve has held numerous senior leadership positions within the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, including Executive Vice President of the NAACP, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, and Program Executive at the Atlantic Philanthropies.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and NYU School of Law.