#  Jessenia Class 

Harvard Law School

 

 

 



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*Public Justice / Washington D.C & Oakland, CA*

Jessenia Class (she/her) is a third-year student at Harvard Law School interested in conditions of confinement and environmental justice. This summer, as a General Litigation Law Clerk at Public Justice, she will work across the organization’s many project areas to develop an intersectional legal strategy to challenge poor conditions.

Jessenia has previously interned at Rights Behind Bars and the ACLU of New Jersey. She has also spent two semesters with the Crimmigration Clinic, advocating for noncitizens at the intersection of criminal law and immigration law through federal district and appellate litigation.

At HLS, Jessenia is a Supervising Editor for the *Harvard Law Review*. She also works as a research assistant for Professors Jon D. Hanson and Andrew Crespo, and as a student attorney for the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project, which she previously served on the board of. She currently serves on the board of La Alianza and the Women’s Law Association and is on the national board for Law Students for Climate Accountability. She also works as a Resident Tutor at Quincy House and serves over 400 undergraduates as a pre-law and writing tutor.

Jessenia grew up in Union, NJ and is a first-generation college and law student. She earned her A.B in Psychology with a focus in Cognitive Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychology from Harvard College. Before law school, Jessenia worked as a program associate at two sister nonprofits, a private public-interest law firm and philanthropy, and volunteered at an organization that served the economic needs of survivors.



 

 

 





 

 

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