Anne Oredeko
Issue No. 21 • Spring 2020
Anne Oredeko is the Supervising Attorney of the Racial Justice Unit at The Legal Aid Society. She worked with students in the New York Public School system by providing them with holistic legal representation and empowering them with knowledge of their legal rights. She also incorporated movement lawyering into her practice through her connections with organizations and activists. She facilitated Know Your Rights workshops, provided legal observing, technical legal advice, and direct representation for activists and organizers. She is a member of Black Youth Project 100 and the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. As a member of 5 Boro Defenders, she actively worked with Court Watch to bring accountability into the criminal justice system. She was a public defender in the Criminal Defense Practice in the Legal Aid Society's Brooklyn Trial office for four years.