Christine ElDabh is a public interest lawyer whose work focuses on decarceration, racial justice, and the rights of incarcerated people. Before joining the Center for Law and Public Trust, she served as a Legal and Policy Analyst and, earlier, as a Legal Fellow with the Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative at NYU Law’s Bernstein Institute for Human Rights. In those roles, she coordinated an advisory board of currently and formerly incarcerated advocates, worked to strengthen incarcerated people’s access to the courts, and developed legal-empowerment resources for jailhouse lawyers. Christine has also worked on parole advocacy and litigation through NYU Law’s Civil Rights in the Criminal Legal System Clinic, the Parole Advocacy Project, and the ACLU Human Rights Program. Before law school, she worked at the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School on human rights projects focused on criminalization, policing, and gender justice in the United States and Kenya. Her scholarship on sex workers’ rights and anti-discrimination law has been published in the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law and the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. She received her JD from NYU School of Law and her BA from the University of Virginia.
Christine ElDabh
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