For eight years, she oversaw the Innocence Projects clinic at Cardozo Law School, developing course plans, managing logistics, teaching seminars, and supervising students. Our systems are failing to make us safer and continue to tear families and communities apart, resulting in more violence, poverty, and racial injustice. Our access to counsel work focuses on ensuring that no one can be deported without legal assistance and a fair hearing. The ACLU SoCal is soliciting applications from individuals interested in working on Los Angeles County Jails advocacy within the Criminal Justice team. Through this work, she developed in-depth expertise in post-conviction law and the complexities of DNA testing and other forensic evidence. Our non-legal interns will participate in community engagement, policy advocacy, workshop development and presentation, campaign development, and coalition building. Fellows will be matched to and work on a team based on experience and interests. This office has long been a leader in changing local and national policing practices through our policy work and litigation. More rain and snow are predicted for Northern California for this weekend, with more storms possible soon. Part of the ACLUs broader Systemic Equality Campaign, the Pauli Murray Fellowship is one avenue through which the ACLU is committing to addressing the legacy of systemic racism and inequality in America by investing in and cultivating leadership pathways for recent college graduates. Alejandro Agustn Ortiz (he/him) is a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLUs Racial Justice Program where he focuses on promoting economic justice for vulnerable communities, including in housing and labor/employment, and equal rights for inhabitants of U.S. territories like Puerto Rico. We accomplish our goals through impact litigation, policy advocacy, activist engagement, and community organizing to enforce existing legal protections and create new ones. Interns must commit to volunteer a minimum of six hours per week. He served as president of the Association of Black Law Students, as well as the attorney general for the Northeast Black Law Students Association. The Fellow will also work with other attorneys, policy advocates, organizers from other ACLU of SoCal Projects; attorneys and advocates in ACLU Northern California and San Diego and Imperial Counties offices; advocates in our Sacramento legislative office, and communications staff as needed and when intersectional issues arise. Los Angeles, CA (Note: Hybrid and Remote opportunities are available upon request and approval. Please be sure to read about how the ACLU of Southern California accepts cases before filling out this form. We also are involved in a wide variety of student discipline and campus police issues, including leading a campaign to remove LAUSD's random student metal detector policy and writing reports about school policies and the school-to-prison pipeline. ACLU SoCal is currently accepting applications for interns who are interested in working on economic justice issues. The ACLU of Georgia-Humanity in Action Fellowship provides Senior Fellows and Fellows the fully-funded opportunity to work with the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia for 8 months. The ACLU SoCal is currently accepting applications for interns who are interested in working on education, student rights, and juvenile justice issues. In Hernandez v. Lynch, we seek to require the government to consider immigrants' ability to pay a bond and non-monetary alternatives in setting conditions of release. She graduated with honors from NYU School of Law as a Robert McKay Scholar in 2020, where she served as an editor on the Review of Law and Social Change, as President of the Latinx Law Students Association, and was a student advocate with the Reproductive Justice clinic. The internship will mainly focus on campaign support, issue-based projects, reports, and intakes. ACLU SoCal welcomes interns/externs in the fall, winter, and spring semesters. Her recent work includes representing plaintiffs in Kenny v. Wilson, challenging a vague South Carolina law making it a crime to disturb a school. Ms. Moore received her J.D. In Davies v. County of Los Angeles, we represented a diverse group of religious leaders and educators challenging the decision by the County to add a Latin Cross to the County seal and succeeded in obtaining a permanent injunction. Uncategorized. Our office has been at the forefront of litigation and advocacy on a number of education and student rights issues in California. Applications and emails we receive regarding positions at National will not receive a response from the ACLU-DC office.Announcement regarding summer 2022 legal She completed her J.D. I interviewed at American Civil Liberties Union (New York, NY) in Oct 2022. The ACLU SoCal is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. ACLU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FELLOWSHIP- FIRST AMENDMENT AND DEMOCRACY 2022-23 LOCATIONLos AngelesSee this and similar jobs on LinkedIn. Which was very off-putting and strange. This is the careers page for the ACLU of the District of Columbia, not the National ACLU or the ACLU's D.C.-based National Political Advocacy Department. HSSU Internship/Fellowship Course Credit. Please also attach your resume, list of three references, a writing sample, and school transcript to our online recruitment portal: https://secure.onehcm.com/ta/ACLUSC.careers?ShowJob=469925213. Previously, he was the Director of the Reinvestigation Project at the Office of the Appellate Defender (OAD) in New York City, where he also represented indigent defendants on appeal from felony convictions as a senior staff attorney. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) defends the fundamental rights outlined in the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. ACLU-MO Letter of Recommendation. A former staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has sued the nonprofit civil rights organization, alleging that as a Black woman, she was subjected to. I'm a freelance investigative reporter based in Mexico City. Undergrads, law school students, and students in other academic programs are encouraged to apply. Abortion care, trans people's right to live freely, people's right to vote - our freedoms are at stake and we need you with us. She launched P.R.O.T.E.C.T. He was counsel for plaintiffs in Aref v. Holder, challenging policies and conditions at the Federal Bureau of Prisons Communications Management Units, in Ashker v. Governor of California, a class action lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement at Californias Pelican Bay prison that resulted in the transfer of thousands of prisoners from SHU units across the state, and in Doe v. Jindal and Doe v. Caldwell, successful companion challenges to a Louisiana law that required individuals convicted of a Crime Against Nature to register as sex offenders. Sarah previously served as a Karpatkin Fellow with the ACLU Racial Justice Program and a fellow and staff attorney with the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. The Surge Fellowship is a one-year program for 20-25 emerging leaders of color in education. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply and value people of all races, genders (including gender identity or expression), sexual orientations, disabilities, citizenships, ages, religions, and national origins and who have different marital statuses, family caregiving responsibilities, lived experiences with the criminal justice systems, and genetic information. Undergrads, law school students, and students in other academic programs are encouraged to apply; however, you need not be enrolled in a higher education program. We, through the affiliate's Jails Project (please seeJails Project'sposting for more information), achieved a historic settlement inRosas v. Baca, a federal class action lawsuit that alleged former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and his command staff condoned a long-standing and widespread pattern of violence by deputies against people incarcerated in the jails. In the areas of Reproductive Justice and Gender Equity, our current priorities include protecting and improving abortion and contraception access; creating workplace equity for workers of all genders and family responsibilities; advancing access to reproductive health care for incarcerated women; ensuring implementation of comprehensive sex education; and ending religious exemptions that permit discrimination in healthcare and other contexts. In Los Angeles, we are campaigning to hold Los Angeles County Sheriff Villanueva accountable to his constituents. Cases that are not within the ACLU SoCal's guidelines are referred to other nonprofit agencies and community resources for possible help. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply and value people of all races, genders (including gender identity or expression), sexual orientations, disabilities, citizenships, ages, religions, and national origins and who have different marital statuses, family caregiving responsibilities, lived experiences with the criminal justice systems, and genetic information. 1313 West 8th St. Los Angeles, CA 90017 (213) 977-9500 www.aclusocal.org. As Senior Staff Attorney at the Innocence Project, Olga litigated and consulted on dozens of post-conviction cases nationwide, including several in which her clients were exonerated after many years in prison. Murray battled discrimination on the basis of sex and race throughout their personal and professional life, carving out an intersectional approach to legal strategies and civil rights discourse that still shapes the ACLUs work today. See http://www.aclusocal.org/CARRP. Despite the serious allegations, Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar were spared from prosecution. We also provide the public with information about upcoming elections, including information on voting options. Please check back on this posting for updates and changes to this rule. Under the settlement, the Sheriff's Department adopted a plan that includes implementation of robust policies to prevent abuse of people who are incarcerated, enhancement in training in use of force for all veteran deputies and new hires, as well as radically enhanced methods for tracking and review of use of force incidents and the complaints and grievances of incarcerated people. Ms. Moore began her career clerking for accomplished civil rights litigator, the late Honorable Robert L. Carter in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.