PSVF Fellow: Avery Farmer (J.D. ’24)

Citizens for Juvenile Justice

Boston, MA

Avery Farmer will spend his fellowship year with Citizens for Juvenile Justice, where he will do legal and policy work to end the school-to-prison pipeline in Massachusetts.

Avery earned his B.A. in Black Studies and English from Amherst College.

At Harvard, Avery was an executive editor of the Harvard Law Review, where he also wrote three pieces on criminal law, the legal profession, and Supreme Court reform. During law school, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Consumer Protection Clinic of Harvard Law School, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and Inquest magazine.