CUNY Law Alum Advances Women's Rights

July 23, 2009

CUNY Law alum Amanda Allen (08) has been selected as a 2009-2010 Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow (WLPPFP). The Georgetown Fellowship engages public interest lawyers to work on a range of issues affecting and advancing women's rights. Each fellow works with a specific organization on legal and policy issues in Washington, DC. In the Fall, Ms. Allen will be a reproductive justice fellow at the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF), working on issues at the intersections of health care and immigration reform and reproductive health, rights and justice.

CUNY Law alum Amanda Allen

Prior to working for NAPAWF, Ms. Allen will finish serving as the first Fellow at Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ). As LSRJ's first Fellow, Ms. Allen is working on a range of issues, including advocating for new law courses in reproductive rights. She is also developing educational materials, including authoring LSRJ's first Human Rights and Reproductive Rights Law Primer, and helping students to access and identify research and scholarship related to reproductive justice. Her writing has appeared on LSRJ's blog, Repo(sess) Repro(ductive Justice), and on RH Reality Check. While at CUNY Law, Allen interned at the Law school's International Women's Humans Rights Clinic, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center, and at Day One, a teen dating violence prevention organization.

She was also an Executive Articles Editor of the New York City Law Review and author of A Plan C for Plan B: A Feminist Legal Response to the Ways in Which "Behind-the-Counter" Emergency Contraception Fails Women, 12 N.Y. City L. Rev. __ (Fall 2009).