Jennifer Tsai

Jennifer Tsai, Staff Attorney
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Jennifer Tsai graduated from Cornell Law School in 1996, where she was editor of the Cornell Law Review and, in 1994, a Charles H. Revson Law Fellow for Public Interest.Prior to joining NDS in January 2001 she was a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society's Criminal Appeals Bureau for 2½ years.Jennifer has also worked as an attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP.

Khurrum Wahid joined NDS in August 2002.He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and graduated from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego where he performed in regional and national competitions for both the Moot Court and Mock Trial teams.After serving as an intern for the San Diego Public Defenders office Khurrum joined the Miami-Dade Public Defenders Office where he conducted over 40 felony and misdemeanor jury trials in addition to two successful appellate challenges over a two-and-one-half year period.He continues to work with the ACLU and other civil rights organizations on issues such a profiling, illegal detentions and the First Amendment.

Jennifer Tsai, Senior Program Associate
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Prior to joining Vera in January 2008, Jennifer worked for two years in Beijing, China, at International Bridges to Justice (IBJ), a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that promotes the rule of law, good governance, and equitable legal rights for all citizens by ensuring the effective implementation of existing laws.As a senior program manager, Jennifer managed nationwide programming of the juvenile justice project.She designed and implemented training workshops for Chinese lawyers and roundtable conferences between juvenile justice stakeholders to build the capacity of the indigent defense system and develop reform initiatives that addressed early access to counsel and detention issues.Prior to her work at IBJ, Jennifer was an attorney in New York for over a decade at the Legal Aid Society and Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, as well as at the Commission on Judicial Conduct and Proskauer Rose LLP.She earned her B.A. from Columbia University and her J.D. from Cornell Law School.>