| Jenny Rivera
Email
Phone
(718) 340-4304
Office
345F2
Jenny Rivera, Professor, received her A.B. from Princeton, J.D. from New
York University, and LL.M from Columbia University School of Law, where she
concentrated on Constitutional and Feminist Theory. Her public interest career
includes work on education and employment discrimination cases, equity and
testing, and language rights discrimination at the Homeless Family Rights
Project of the Legal Aid Society and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and
Education Fund, as well as her clerkship for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, now a member
of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The author of articles on civil and
women's rights in such journals as the Journal of Law & Policy,
Boston College Third World Journal, and Columbia Journal of Gender and
the Law, she wrote a 1997 study on the availability of domestic violence
services for Latinas in New York State, the second phase of which was issued in
2003. In 2000, El Diario/La Prensa named her one of the Outstanding
Latinas, and the New York City Chapter of the National Conference of Puerto
Rican Women honored her in the same year for her service to the Latina
community. In September 2002, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed
her to the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
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