American Civil Liberties Union

Alice Farmer is the Aryeh Neier Fellow with Human Rights Watch and the ACLU's Human Rights Program, where she works on issues surrounding school discipline. Prior to this position, she was a protection officer with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, working to defend refugee rights first with the Caribbean desk and then in Liberia. Previously, she was a member of the U.S. Department of Justice Honors Program in the Executive Office for Immigration Review, working primarily on asylum and Convention Against Torture cases. Alice was in the NYU Law International Human Rights Clinic as a law student. She has also worked for the American Refugee Committee in Guinea and for UNHCR in Macedonia.

Alice holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. from Harvard University.