Chloe Cockburn
Ms. Cockburn joined NSB as a Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Fellow in 2010. From 2007-2008, she served as a fellow in the General Counsel’s office at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, where she assisted in designing significant reforms of the New Orleans criminal justice system. In 2008-2009, Ms. Cockburn clerked for the Honorable Charles P. Sifton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. From 2009-2010, Ms. Cockburn held the Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellowship in civil liberties at the ACLU Racial Justice Program. At the ACLU, she assisted in litigation in Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Idaho, Texas, and Michigan. In 2007, Ms. Cockburn graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served on the Executive Board of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, was a teaching assistant for Professors Lani Guinier and Charles Nesson, represented indigent clients through the Criminal Justice Institute, and received public interest and writing fellowships. She interned with Attorney Robert McDuff in Jackson, Mississippi, and for the Public Defender Service of Washington D.C. Ms. Cockburn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in Classics and Studio Art in 2001.
Ms. Cockburn is admitted to practice in New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Ms. Cockburn can be reached at chloe@nsbcivilrights.com.