Center for Reproductive Rights | Washington D.C.

Mira Lerner (she/her) is a third-year student at Harvard Law School interested in confronting sources of extreme social and economic inequities in access to reproductive health care in the U.S. This summer, as an intern with the Center for Reproductive Rights, she will be working to protect reproductive rights through federal policy and legislation.

Mira has previously interned at the Positive Women’s Network-USA and the National Women’s Law Center, and she spent a semester working on access to gender affirming care in Harvard’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic. During the spring of her 2L year, she conducted an independent writing project on access to abortions for people experiencing incarceration and people facing criminal charges.

At HLS, Mira has worked as a research assistant at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and as a student attorney for the Harvard Immigration Project. She previously served on the board of HLS Lambda and currently serves on the board of the Alliance for Reproductive Justice. She also worked as a communications graduate assistant for the Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Mira grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, NY and earned her B.A. in environmental studies and psychology from Franklin & Marshall College. Before law school, Mira worked at a ski mountain in Park City, UT and volunteered on projects to protect the rights of women in regions impacted by extractive mining.