The C4C Federal Exchange Newsletter Vol.2 / No.2 (February 2015) ISSN 2375-706X 1 | P a g e

Matthew F. Fogg, a retired Chief Deputy Marshal received the District of Columbia, U.S. Attorney, and Federal Bar Association’s highest law enforcement awards for tracking down over 300 of America’s most-wanted and dangerous fugitives charged with prison escape, murder, rape, child molestation, and other heinous crimes in the U.S. and abroad.In 1998, Fogg won a landmark Title VII civil rights verdict against his employer, the U.S. Department of Justice’s U.S. Marshals Service (USMS). A jury in federal court for the District of Columbia awarded Fogg $4 million dollars after “finding” the USMS guilty of operating a ‘racial hostile environment’ for all African American deputy US marshals nationwide. Mr. Matthew Fogg is also known for his courageous congressional testimony exposing police brutality in minority communities. See video by clicking HERE.

Paulette L. Taylor, a retired disabled veteran, began her federal career at the Social Security Administration (SSA) in 1980. In 2002, after observing racial inequality and recognizing that officials at the SSA office headquartered in Woodlawn, Maryland routinely passed over qualified African American females for promotions, Ms. Taylor filed a class action complaint against the agency. On December 13, 2013, an EEOC Judge concluded that the SSA engaged in: "class-wide discrimination against nonsupervisory African-American female employees who were denied promotions into the GS-12 level from 2009 to the present. Ms. Taylor serves as the President of the Black Females for Justice II, Inc. (BFFJII) - a non-profit organization supporting the class complaint. Paulette Taylor, a staunch activist for equality in the workplace, also dynamically serves as the Civil Rights Chair for the Coalition For Change, Inc. (C4C). [*Class complaint still pending resolution.]

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo is a former senior policy analyst for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Beginning in 1996, she filed complaints alleging that a company from the United States was mining vanadium in South Africa and harming the environment and human health. She also filed and won a Title VII lawsuit against the EPA alleging racial and gender discrimination. On August 18, 2000, a federal jury found the EPA guilty of violating the civil rights of Dr. Coleman-Adebayo based on race, sex, color and a hostile work environment under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Her experience inspired the passage of the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act). Dr. Coleman-Adebayo, a staunch advocate for justice, is the author of A Whistleblower’s Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA. See video by clicking HERE.

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