Bio
Amanda Meyer (she/her) is a Senior Staff Attorney in the Racial Justice Program, where she focuses on fair housing and educational equity. She joined the ACLU in 2022 from the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General, where she worked on federal and state civil litigation, investigations, and policy with respect to education, fair housing, employment, and voting. Amanda also worked on several litigation challenges to federal administrative action under the Trump administration, including the Refusal Rule litigation, New York et al. v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and the Public Charge litigation, New York et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Amanda received the Lefkowitz Award for outstanding performance on behalf of the New York Attorney General for her work in successfully challenging a local board of election’s placement of early voting sites in People v. Schofield, et al. Prior to her work in the Civil Rights Bureau, Amanda served as a Director of Legal Strategy and Policy at the Center for Public Research & Leadership at Columbia Law School, where she worked with public education institutions and nonprofit organizations to further educational equity, including leading an effort on behalf of a state department of education to promote racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and other forms of integration in K-12 public schools. Prior to that role, she was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardell LLP where her practice focused on civil litigation, regulatory enforcement matters, and pro bono cases involving education and family law. During her time at Davis Polk, she was recognized with the Sanctuary for Families Above and Beyond Pro Bono Award for work on a Manhattan Family Court trial, and spearheaded a middle school law program in the Bronx. Amanda began her legal career clerking for Judge Denny Chin on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Judge Kenneth Karas in the Southern District of New York. She earned her J.D. at Columbia Law School where she served as Executive Essays Editor on the Columbia Law Review and was awarded the Samuel I. Rosenman Prize for academic excellence in public law courses and outstanding citizenship and leadership. She has also served as a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. Amanda began her career teaching middle school students in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and earned a M.S. in teaching from Pace University, and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.