Deadria Farmer-Paellmann
Deadria Farmer-Paellmann is a legal strategist, adjunct law professor,
and human rights activist. In 2002, she filed a landmark class action
lawsuit for slavery reparations against blue-chip corporations.
Farmer-Paellmann is credited for popularizing the slavery reparations movement through her groundbreaking research exposing corporate complicity in slavery. In January of 2000, she exposed Aetna Incorporated for writing insurance policies on the lives of enslaved Africans with slaveholders as the beneficiaries in the 1800's. Her research linking JP Morgan Chase/Bank One to slavery led to the company making a public apology in January 2005, and committing to pay $5 million in reparations over the next five years in college scholarships to slave descendants residing in Louisiana.
Farmer-Paellmann earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College in 1988; she completed her Masters Degree specializing in Lobbying and Political Campaign Management at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1995; and she earned her Juris Doctorate degree from New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts in 1999. As a law student, she studied International Trade Law and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Nairobi Faculty of Law in Nairobi, Kenya 1996.
She serves as Adjunct Professor of Law at Southern New England School of Law, is Executive Director of the Restitution Study Group, and is Co-Chair of the Organization of Tribal Unity - OTU.
Farmer-Paellmann is credited for popularizing the slavery reparations movement through her groundbreaking research exposing corporate complicity in slavery. In January of 2000, she exposed Aetna Incorporated for writing insurance policies on the lives of enslaved Africans with slaveholders as the beneficiaries in the 1800's. Her research linking JP Morgan Chase/Bank One to slavery led to the company making a public apology in January 2005, and committing to pay $5 million in reparations over the next five years in college scholarships to slave descendants residing in Louisiana.
Farmer-Paellmann earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College in 1988; she completed her Masters Degree specializing in Lobbying and Political Campaign Management at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1995; and she earned her Juris Doctorate degree from New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts in 1999. As a law student, she studied International Trade Law and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Nairobi Faculty of Law in Nairobi, Kenya 1996.
She serves as Adjunct Professor of Law at Southern New England School of Law, is Executive Director of the Restitution Study Group, and is Co-Chair of the Organization of Tribal Unity - OTU.