Mollie Berkowitz
Students’ Civil Rights Project Fellow
Mollie Berkowitz is a fellow with the Students’ Civil Rights Project. Previously, she was the Peter and Patricia Gruber Fellow in Women’s Rights at Public Justice. Mollie litigates a broad range of cases concerning students’ civil rights across the country.
As a law student, Mollie was an active participant in the Veterans’ Legal Services Clinic, where, in addition to representing individual veterans in administrative proceedings, she represented a class of veterans with less than Honorable discharge statuses in landmark litigation against the US Navy. Mollie was also a member of the Reproductive Rights and Justice Project, where she worked on both impact litigation and legislative advocacy to support reproductive choice. In addition, she served as co-chair of the law school’s Title IX Working Group, where she advocated for changes in sexual misconduct policy at the law school, in the judiciary, and in federal Title IX regulations.
Before joining Public Justice, Mollie worked with a number of civil rights-focused private law firms and at the New York State Office of the Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau. Mollie is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Francis Wayland Prize for proficiency in preparing and presenting a case in negotiation and litigation. She holds a B.A. in Women’s Studies and History, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Michigan.
Mollie is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and New York. She is also admitted to the bars of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh and Ninth Circuits.
