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INITIATIVE

FOR A 

REPRESENTATIVE

FIRST

AMENDMENT

The Initiative for a Representative First Amendment (IfRFA) provides financial support and career opportunities for law students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in First Amendment law. We help law students build expertise, make connections with clinics, and see themselves as part of a broad web of practitioners dedicated to justice and free expression. 

 
 TEAM 
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Kendra Albert

Director

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Christopher Bavitz

Founding Director

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Sybil Gelin

Communications

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Jasjot Kaur

Project Coordinator

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Khaled Beydoun

Scholar In Residence

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ADVISORY BOARD
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Jasmine McNealy

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Nani Jansen Reventlow

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April “Kit” Walsh, a white woman with shoulder length hair, smiles at the camera. The bottom of the headshot suggests that she is wearing a Star Trek uniform.

April "Kit" Walsh

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Andrew Geronimo

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Danielle Blunt

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Meenakshi Krishnan

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G.S. Hans

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Header image is Justice, by Diana K. Moore, from outside the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey. You can read more about the sculpture here.

 

The Initiative for a Representative First Amendment is a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic. We're proudly funded by the Legal Clinics fund.