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Celine Zhu

Celine Zhu

Legal Fellow, [email protected], (212) 219-1800 ext. 272

Celine Zhu is a Legal Fellow sponsored by the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at New York University School of Law. She graduated from New York University School of Law as a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar in 2023, where she worked with communities in South Carolina and Louisiana to combat racially discriminatory infrastructure and voting practices through the Civil Rights Clinic. Celine also served as Digital Articles Editor for the Review of Law and Social Change, and a volunteer advocate for incarcerated New Yorkers eligible for parole through Ending the Prison Industrial Complex. During law school, she interned for the National Institute for Reproductive Health and the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project. Prior to law school, Celine graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College in 2020 with a B.A. in Political Science.

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