NAACP Legal Defense Fund : Defend, Educate, Empower

Leah Aden joined LDF's staff in February 2012 as a NAACP LDF Fried Frank Fellow, working in the Political Participation Group.  Prior to joining LDF, she spent the first two years of her fellowship at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, where she worked on several complex litigation matters.  Ms. Aden also previously served as a fellow at the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she focused on public education issues, including school desegregation and education adequacy litigation.  She previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable John T. Nixon of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.  Leah received her J.D. from Howard University School of Law and B.A. in History and African-American Studies from Columbia University.