Elora Mukherjee

Elora Mukherjee, a graduate of Rutgers University (Rutgers College, 2002) with majors in Political Science, Economics, and Spanish, was a trainer for the first Global PACT program in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2005. As a law student, she represented asylum seekers, assisted on a death penalty case, and worked on a range of domestic and international human rights issues.  

From 2005 to 2006, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Jan E. DuBois in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. From 2006 to 2007, she was named the Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow at the ACLU. There, she filed suit on behalf of immigrant children detained under prison-like conditions at the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas. A landmark settlement that she helped to negotiate greatly improved conditions at the facility and secured the release of her clients. At the ACLU, Elora also worked on school desegregation, education, racial profiling, and free speech issues. She is currently an associate at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, LLP where her practice focuses on civil rights issues.