Diallo Brooks
Director of Legislator Relations

Diallo Brooks began working for the Center for Policy Alternatives in May 1999 as Coordinator of the Northeast Policy Leaders Forum, later becoming Director of CPA’s Southeast Regional Forum. Currently, Brooks is Director of Legislator Relations and is responsible for working with state legislators, state policy organizations, and grassroots leaders to move a broad progressive agenda through leadership development, technical assistance and building statewide, regional, and national networks. Prior to CPA, Brooks worked as Client Services Coordinator for Millennium Communication Group, a strategic communications consulting firm working with nonprofits and foundations with a mission of social change. Brooks has done extensive community organizing both as a field organizer for the Rainbow Coalition and Citizen Education Fund as well as union organizing in the South. Brooks has also worked as an advisory committee member and is a 2003-04 Co-Chair for Black Youth Vote, a program of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.