Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Boston, MA
Erin will spend her fellowship year at Lawyers for Civil Rights (formerly Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice) in Boston, where she will work on constitutional litigation related to immigrants’ rights and racial justice. During law school, Erin was a student attorney and disciplinary hearing coordinator for the Prison Legal Assistance Project and an executive editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Through various clinical placements, Erin completed externships with the MacArthur Justice Center, the ACLU Capital Punishment Project, and the CPCS Youth Advocacy Division. She was a summer intern at Children’s Rights in New York City and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Prior to law school, Erin studied Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan and worked as a behavioral therapist for children with disabilities.