Mira Edmonds

Hiles Fellow, Justice Programs

Mira Edmonds is the 2011-2012 Hiles Fellow, with a focus on AFJ’s Corporate Court campaign and other justice initiatives. A 2007 graduate of Harvard Law School, Mira recently completed a clerkship with the Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Prior to that, she worked as a public defender at the Legal Aid Society in New York for three years. During law school, Mira served as a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, the school’s student-run civil legal services clinic, and as a research assistant to current Dean Martha Minow and Visiting Professor Gerald Torres. Mira spent her summers during law school at the Migrant Farmworkers Justice Project and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Prior to law school, Mira coordinated the Cuba Program at the Social Science Research Council, taught English to fourth- and fifth-graders in Creteil, France, and worked with Ensemble Contre La Peine de Mort (Together Against the Death Penalty). Mira graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, where she studied Latin American and Caribbean History. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York.