Patrick Archer
Legal Fellow
Patrick Archer (he/him) is a Legal Fellow with the Students’ Civil Rights Project. In addition to
supporting SCRP’s litigation work in a number of capacities, his fellowship project focuses on
challenging racially discriminatory practices by school resource officers in North Carolina public
school.
Patrick’s fellowship with SCRP grows out of a longstanding passion for educational equity issues
and public interest legal advocacy. In law school, he was a co-chair of the Education Law and
Policy Society and completed internships with both Bronx Legal Services’ Education Law Unit
and the National Center for Youth Law’s Legal Advocacy team. He also gained substantial civil
rights lawyering experience through a year-long Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic and a
semester-long Police Accountability Externship with Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem.
Additionally, he served as an Article Selection Editor for the N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social
Change, as a Paul Weiss Student Fellow at the NYU Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law,
and as a judicial extern at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Before law school, Patrick spent three years as a math and science teacher at public middle
schools in North Carolina and Tennessee. He received his J.D. from New York University School
of Law and his B.A. in Political Science and Peace, War, and Defense from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
