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Emily Keller is an attorney at the MacArthur Justice Center’s National Parole Transformation Project. Emily’s work focuses on challenging systems of parole that violate people’s rights and feed mass incarceration.
Prior to joining the MacArthur Justice Center, Emily was a trial attorney in the Special Litigation Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, where she protected people’s civil rights in their interactions with police departments and youth court and correctional systems. Before that, Emily worked at Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she protected the rights of children involved in the juvenile and criminal systems, including challenging life without parole and other extreme sentences for children.
Emily served as a law clerk to Judge Robert N. Chatigny on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. She earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Brown University.