Dmitri Holtzman is the director of Education Justice Campaigns at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD). Before joining CPD, he was the founding executive director of the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) in South Africa and a former organizer with the youth-led social movement Equal Education (EE). Holtzman is an adjunct lecturer in law at the University of Columbia Law School. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Western Cape.