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Jennesa Calvo-Friedman

Staff Attorney

ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµWomen's Rights Project

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Bio

Jennesa Calvo-Friedman is a senior staff attorney at the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµWomen’s Rights Project. Previously, she was a staff attorney to the National Legal Director of the ACLU, where her work focused on the ACLU’s Supreme Court docket. She has contributed to 8 merits cases, 14 petitions seeking or opposing certiorari, and over 30 amicus briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court. She began her work at the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµas 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

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 ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµGoes to the States

To Fight a Stacked Federal Bench, the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµGoes 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.

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

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

In Defense of Affirmative Action in Higher Education