Darius Graham is author of the award-winning book, Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World.  Darius received a B.A. summa cum laude from Florida A&M University in 2006 and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley - School of Law in 2009, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy and as an editor of the California Law Review. 
    

 In 2006, USA Today named him one of the top 20 college students in the country and the governor of Florida awarded Darius a Points of Light Award for his community service.  While in Florida, Darius created Books All Around, Inc., a non-profit youth literacy organization that has created small libraries in community centers and distributed over 3,000 new books to children in several states.  Darius has served on the board of directors of the McCullum Youth Court in Oakland, CA and currently serves on the board of trustees of the Institute for Responsible Citizenship in Washington, DC.  Darius is originally from Charlotte, NC and is currently an attorney in private practice in Washington, DC.