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Leah Watson

Senior Staff Attorney

老澳门开奖结果's Racial Justice Program

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Leah Watson is a Senior Staff Attorney with the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Racial Justice Program, where she focuses on classroom censorship, the attack on DEI, the criminalization of homelessness, bias in policing, and racial health disparities during the Covid-19 pandemic. She authored 鈥淭he Anti-鈥楥ritical Race Theory鈥 Campaign: Classroom Censorship and Racial Backlash by Another Name鈥 in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Previously, Leah was Senior Counsel in the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers鈥 Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where she led litigation challenging debtors鈥 prisons and excessive fines and fees practices in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Prior to joining the Lawyers鈥 Committee, she was a Senior Associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and an Associate at Baker Hostetler LLP. Leah led cross-border investigations in one of the top ten largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act settlements. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to law school, she taught high school in Atlanta, Georgia through Teach for America. Leah earned her B.A. magna cum laude in Communication Studies and Sociology from Vanderbilt University.