Bio
Jennesa Calvo-Friedman is currently a staff attorney at the ACLU. Previously, she was the Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow with the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program. Before joining the ACLU, Calvo-Friedman clerked for the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Ronnie Abrams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was the Relman Civil Rights Fellow at the civil rights law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax. Calvo-Friedman received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated first in class, was a Public Interest Law Scholar and Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy.
Featured work
Mar 4, 2024
New York's Coercion of Private Companies to Blacklist the NRA Has a Long and Dark History
Aug 12, 2022
To Fight a Stacked Federal Bench, the ACLU Goes to the States
May 14, 2020
DeVos is Rolling Back Protections for Sexual Harassment and Assault Survivors in Schools. We’re Suing to Put a Stop to It.
Apr 11, 2019
The American Public Deserves to See the Mueller Report With as Few Redactions as Possible
Aug 30, 2018
In Defense of Affirmative Action in Higher Education