Bio
Jennesa Calvo-Friedman is currently a staff attorney at the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û. Previously, she was the Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow with the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û’s Racial Justice Program. Before joining the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û, Calvo-Friedman clerked for the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Ronnie Abrams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was the Relman Civil Rights Fellow at the civil rights law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax. Calvo-Friedman received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated first in class, was a Public Interest Law Scholar and Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy.
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New York's Coercion of Private Companies to Blacklist the NRA Has a Long and Dark History
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To Fight a Stacked Federal Bench, the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û Goes to the States
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In Defense of Affirmative Action in Higher Education