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DIRECTOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL LITIGATION

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As Director of Constitutional Litigation, Shira Lauren Feldman leads Brady’s Second Amendment litigation and its amicus work.  She represents governments whose gun violence prevention laws are being challenged in court and advises governments on strategies for responding to such legal challenges.  She also supports the defense of gun violence prevention laws with a robust amicus practice in federal and state court.  Before joining Brady, Shira represented genocide victims and other persecuted groups as a litigation partner at a law firm in New York. She also was a law clerk to Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo and Chief Judge Dora L. Irizarry, both in the Eastern District of New York.

Shira is a graduate of Columbia University, cum laude and with honors in Political Science, and New York University School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow.

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We are unique in the movement in that we are survivor-founded and survivor-led. Our leaders and team members who are gun violence survivors deeply understand the solutions that will save lives. We fight because we want to do everything in our power to make sure that no other family suffers the pain and loss of losing a loved one to gun violence.

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