Ellen Barry (attorney)

Ellen M. Barry (born 1955) is an American attorney, and public interest lawyer.[1] She was a 1998 MacArthur Fellow.[2]

Life

She grew up in Somerville, Massachusetts. She graduated from Swarthmore College, and New York University Law School

She started Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, in 1978.[3] She helped organize the National Network for Women in Prison, and Critical Resistance.[4]

References

  1. ^ http://www.caldir.com/lawyers/California/San-Francisco/94102/1wr1/Ellen-M-Barry.html
  2. ^ http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1139459/k.954D/Fellows_List__B.htm
  3. ^ http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/about/board/
  4. ^ Will Hermes (January–February 1999). "Maverick: Ellen Barry, Jailhouse Lawyer". Utne Reader. http://www.utne.com/1999-01-01/Maverick.aspx. 

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