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 Erika
K. Woods
Erika
K. Woods is the eighth recipient of the George N. Lindsay
Fellowship. Erika currently serves as the staff attorney
for the Education Project where she works to obtain equal
educational opportunities for minority and poor students
within the nation's elementary and secondary schools and
institutions of higher education.
Erika’s fellowship project involves a comprehensive
study of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In particular,
Erika’s project includes a core goal to assess the
effectiveness of the No Child Left Behind Act and to develop
strategies to achieve appropriate legislative and legal
reform. In addition to her work with the No Child Left Behind
Act, Erika is also involved in the ongoing litigation and
programmatic activities of the Education Project, including
the long running Thomasville school desegregation case.
Prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law, Erika worked as an associate with Arnold &
Porter LLP. As an associate with Arnold & Porter LLP,
Erika successfully negotiated settlements in several copyright
infringement actions and was integrally involved in many
of the law firm’s pro bono efforts.
Erika received her undergraduate degree in public policy,
cum laude, from the University of Southern California in
2000. She received her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law
in 2003. During law school, Erika served as an extern for
the Honorable Audrey B. Collins in the United States District
Court for the Central District of California and was a member
of the UCLA School of Law Moot Court Honors Program. Erika
also co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of UCLA School
of Law students of color in the 2003 United States Supreme
Court affirmative action case, Grutter v. Bollinger. She
also gained valuable criminal law experience while working
as a death penalty appellate Law Clerk for the Mississippi
Post Conviction Counsel Project in Jackson, Mississippi.
Erika is licensed to practice law in the State of California
and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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