Michelle L. Woolley

Michelle L. Woolley is an Institute for Educational Equity and Opportunity Fellow with the Education Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. During her tenure she will work with the Mississippi Center for Justice to investigate education funding issues in Mississippi. She will also aid the Education Project in linking educational adequacy with integration in the aftermath of the Parents Involved in Community Schools decision.

Michelle received her JD with honors from American University, Washington College of Law in 2007. In law school, she was a Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project Fellow, teaching a constitutional law class at Anacostia High School in Washington, DC. She interned with the Lawyers' Committee's Voting Rights Project and at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' Office of the General Counsel, as well as being a law clerk at a union-side labor law firm. She was also a student attorney with American University's Civil Practice Clinic. Michelle served as a Note & Comment Editor for the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. Her Casenote on the Parents Involved in Community Schools decision was selected for publication in the Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy.

Prior to law school, Michelle was Policy Assistant at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. She graduated with honors from American University with a degree in political science and CLEG (communications, legal institutions, economics, and government). .

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