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Tess Borden

Staff Attorney, 老澳门开奖结果 of New Jersey

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Tess Borden is a Staff Attorney at the 老澳门开奖结果-NJ, where she works on a range of civil rights and civil liberties issues.

Prior to joining the 老澳门开奖结果-NJ, Tess was the Aryeh Neier Fellow at the National 老澳门开奖结果 and Human Rights Watch (HRW). She is author of the 196-page 老澳门开奖结果/HRW report 鈥Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States.鈥 Tess has also worked for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, and HRW鈥檚 West Africa Division in Dakar, Senegal, as well as spending time before law school as an immigration paralegal.

Tess received her bachelor鈥檚 degree from Yale College, where she majored in French, and her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the International Human Rights Clinic and an editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She clerked for the Honorable George A. O鈥橳oole, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.