Bio
Amanda Meyer is a Senior Staff Attorney in the Racial Justice Program, where she focuses on fair housing and educational equity. She joined the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ from the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General, where she worked on federal and state civil litigation and investigations with respect to education, fair housing, employment, and voting. Amanda also worked on several challenges to federal administrative action under the Trump administration. Prior to her work in the Civil Rights Bureau, Amanda served as a Director of Legal Strategy and Policy at the Center for Public Research & Leadership at Columbia Law School, where she worked with public education institutions and nonprofit organizations to further educational equity, including leading an effort on behalf of a state department of education to promote racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and other forms of integration in K-12 public schools. Amanda began her legal career clerking for Judge Denny Chin on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Judge Kenneth Karas in the Southern District of New York before working as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. She earned her J.D. at Columbia Law School, and earned an M.S. in teaching from Pace University, and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.