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
![Court gavel resting atop the US Constitution document, where First Amendment starts.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/03/first-amendment-b-400x266.jpg)
Mar 4, 2024
New York's Coercion of Private Companies to Blacklist the NRA Has a Long and Dark History
![Stars on the American flag.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/08/Stars_Blog-400x266.jpg)
Aug 12, 2022
To Fight a Stacked Federal Bench, the ACLU Goes to the States
![A recent graduate shouts and holds sign that reads "survivor" as Betsey Devos speaks on college campus about changes to Title IX](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/05/Title-IX-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
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.
![William Barr Swearing In](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-williambarrconfirmation-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Apr 11, 2019
The American Public Deserves to See the Mueller Report With as Few Redactions as Possible
![Statue of John Harvard on Harvard University's campus](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-harvard-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Aug 30, 2018
In Defense of Affirmative Action in Higher Education