Seawell Welcomed as Social Justice Teaching Fellow
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Em Seawell has joined Northeastern Law’s Legal Skills in Social Context program as a Social Justice Teaching Fellow. Seawell previously served as a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of North Carolina, where they worked on state and federal impact litigation and class-action cases. Prior to that, Seawell was an attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, focusing on voting rights. They also taught for two years in the legal writing program at UNC School of Law. Seawell is a graduate of the University of Florida and Elon University School of Law.
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