Brian W. Walsh is the founder and president of the Civil Rights Research Center in Washington, D.C. The Civil Rights Research Center (CRRC) works beyond racial, political, religious, and socio-economic barriers to promote civil rights and liberties and equal justice under law for all. Its educational initiatives focus on issues including criminal-justice reform, racial reconciliation, religious civil rights and liberties, and ending human trafficking and other abuses of the indigent and powerless. Before founding CRRC, Walsh was Executive Director of the American Religious Freedom Program, a research initiative of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, Mr. Walsh was Senior Legal Research Fellow in former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese's legal center at the Heritage Foundation where he led a Left-Right, bipartisan/nonpartisan coalition fighting the abuse of criminal law and criminal process. Mr. Walsh has testified regarding civil rights and liberties before committees of the U.S. Congress and state legislatures. He has appeared frequently on radio and television and his commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and numerous other publications.