Christine Rivera

Christine Rivera (she/her/hers) received her J.D. from Rutgers Law School (Newark) where she was a Kinoy-Stavis Fellow and an Eric R. Neisser Public Interest Fellow. Upon graduating, she received the J. Shelly Wright Prize for the greatest contribution to civil rights, civil liberties, and human affairs. During law school, Christine participated in the International Human Rights Clinic, the Constitutional Rights Clinic, and the Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic where she was introduced to community lawyering, represented youth in post-conviction relief matters, and represented adult and adolescent clients charged with misdemeanors. During law school, Christine interned with the New York Civil Liberties Union where she challenged agreements between ICE and local jails and cases of police brutality, as well as The Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn where she worked on the representation of youth charged as adults, and the Women’s Project, an alternative to detention program for women detained on Rikers Island. Christine graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a B.A. in Sociology where she studied social welfare in South Africa and interned at a youth prison, psychiatric ward, and domestic violence center. After graduation, she spent a year teaching in Los Angeles, CA.