Bio
Alexis Agathocleous (he/him) is the Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program (RJP), where he works on issues related to health equity, the criminal legal system, and barriers to community reentry. His litigation and advocacy focus on the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality, and he litigates cases challenging HIV criminalization, attacks on health disparities research, and the criminalization of poverty. Previously, Alexis was Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), where he also litigated federal civil rights cases involving racial and religious profiling, the rights of incarcerated people, gender and LGBTQ justice, and the criminalization of dissent – including successful challenges to long-term solitary confinement in California and Louisiana’s sex offender registration requirements for people convicted of Crimes Against Nature by Solicitation. Alexis also worked with the Innocence Project’s Strategic Litigation Department, focusing on eyewitness identification evidence, false confessions, and racial bias in the criminal legal system, and was Director of the Reinvestigation Project at the Office of the Appellate Defender (OAD) in New York City, where he also represented indigent defendants on appeal from felony convictions as a senior staff attorney. Mr. Agathocleous was a Karpatkin Fellow with RJP, and graduated from Brown University in 1997 and Yale Law School in 2003.