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New York City Metropolitan Area

Advancing comprehensive multi-disciplinary advocacy agendas in the courts, policy circles, and press. Leading teams of attorneys, researchers, communications professionals, and clinic students. Managing and developing litigation, including management of internal and external counsel, with a focus on novel, high-impact issues with significant appellate components. Establishing and co-leading task forces of major non-profits and technical experts to address emerging legal issues. Authoring and coordinating amicus briefs for U.S. Supreme Court cases, with roughly a dozen such briefs cited by Justices of the Supreme Court in their majority opinions, concurrences, or dissents. Producing original legal scholarship. Serving as point-of-contact subject-matter expert for six- and seven-figure funders.

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Litigation Associate and Member of Supreme Court & Appellate Practice. Drafted and edited winning briefs and critical motions for trial- and appellate-level matters in courts throughout the United States, including the United States Supreme Court. Drafted legal and strategy memoranda. Mooted Supreme Court and appellate arguments for attorneys inside and outside firm. Counseled clients on risk management matters. Areas of focus included constitutional law and federal preemption.

New Haven, Ct

Assisted federal appellate judge in preparing opinions. Authored bench memoranda for a diverse range of civil, criminal, and immigration appeals.

New Haven, Ct

Provided legal and policy research support to City of New Haven Community Reentry Initiative. Co-authored comprehensive action plan for future reentry initiatives. Drafted model legislation for local- and state-level reform efforts.

New Haven, Ct

Authored memoranda on First and Fourteenth Amendment, federalism, separation of powers, and local government law issues. Prepared professor for Senate testimony on campaign finance reform.

New Haven, Ct

Provided legal writing and research instruction to a sixteen-student first-year constitutional law course. Developed writing and research exercises in consultation with professor and co-TA. Conducted one-on-one and group feedback sessions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Authored memoranda on First Amendment, contract breach, antitrust, civil procedure, and corporations law issues. Drafted portion of petition for certiorari for Supreme Court. Co-authored articles on discovery and social media. Scouted prospective pro bono matters for partners.

New Haven, Ct

Guided the design and launch of Constitution2020.org, a blog companion to professors' essay collection. Recruited all-law student writing staff, edited staff contributions, coordinated staff coverage of two-day academic conference.

Brooklyn, New York

Authored memoranda for securities fraud, medical insurance fraud, immigration, criminal conspiracy, and human trafficking cases. Authored or co-authored motions, jury charges, affidavits, and search warrants.

Authored music reviews and interviews for tastemaking urban music website.

Durham, North Carolina

Built and led organizational meetings (8 to 250 attendees) setting long-term agenda for General Election. Recruited and trained field staff in list-building, voter outreach, and political organizing methods. Supervised paid and unpaid field staff, volunteers in daily organizing activities. Sited and built voter registration events. Recruited volunteer leaders for innovative "Change Crew" neighborhood teams.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Interviewed and recruited unpaid field staff for innovative Obama Organizing Fellows Program, leading to 250-person voter registration operation with state-level reach and third largest voter registration operation within Obama campaign (behind Ohio and Florida). Operation generated roughly same number of new or updated registrants as margin of victory in North Carolina General Election. Coordinated logistics of three-day training session for Fellows Program, acquiring free housing and transportation for 150+ out-of-state residents. Sited and built voter registration activities for volunteers. Liased with leadership of grassroots organizations to maintain and solidify working relationships. Compiled intellligence on statewide primary operation (key people, places, challenges) for transition to new state leadership.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Built and trained 200-person volunteer organization for voter registration, persuasion, and GOTV operations in Democratic Presidential primary. Recruited and trained full-time unpaid and paid deputy organizers. Secured grassroots funding and support necessary to open three satellite offices in region. Conducted organizational meetings setting agenda for persuasion, Early Vote, and GOTV efforts (30 to 80 attendees). Identified volunteer leaders for innovative Obama "Change Crew" neighborhood teams. Managed daily volunteer activities in satellite offices.

West Orange, Nj

Assisted senior campaign leadership in outreach to religious leaders and institutions prior to Democratic Presidential Primary. Compiled comprehensive institutional contact database, used to manage initial outreach and later state-wide GOTV literature drop / voter outreach operations. Organized non-partisan voter registration events in tandem with religious leadership. Arranged, staffed surrogate speaker opportunities. Prepared campaign surrogates for appearances at town hall debates. Appeared as surrogate speaker for campaign. Engaged in fundraising activities on behalf of state office.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided editorial support, primarily through researching, editing, fact-checking, and proofreading tasks for editorial staff. Produced short articles for broad audience consumption consistent with style and tone of established national publication. Performed market research for national advertising campaign. Collaborated with editorial and business staff to explore design changes

Greater New York City Area

Researched, transcribed, annotated, and edited historical documents leading to publication of book, Early American Abolitionists. Collaborated with twelve-person team to set editorial standards for book. Researched late-eighteenth century American abolitionism, racial ideology, politics

Ab, History

Msc, Development & Planning - Urban Development Planning

Mphil, Political Thought And Intellectual History

J.D., Law

Activities and Societies: American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, Yale Law and Policy Review