Senior Director of Constitutional Litigation
As Senior Director of Constitutional Litigation, Shira Lauren Feldman leads Brady’s work defending federal, state, and local gun violence prevention measures in court. She represents and advises governments on strategies for responding to legal challenges, and supports governments with amicus briefs. She also leads Brady’s legal response to attempts to roll back gun violence prevention measures. Before joining Brady, Shira represented genocide victims and other persecuted groups as a partner in a small law firm in New York. Shira clerked in the Eastern District of New York for Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo and then-Chief Judge Dora L. Irizarry. She 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. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Public Interest Law Association.
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WE’RE LED BY GUN VIOLENCE SURVIVORS
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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