September 24, 2019
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm, Eastern Time
Lunch Talk with Amol Sinha
Come hear Amol Sinha discuss his work at the ACLU of New Jersey. Co-hosted by ACS, ACLU, and SALSA. Lunch will be served.
Amol Sinha serves as the Executive Director of the ACLU-NJ, having taken the helm in 2017. Prior to joining the ACLU-NJ, Amol was a policy advocate at the Innocence Project, where he led state-level policy campaigns nationwide to address wrongful convictions. From 2010-2015, Amol was the director of the Suffolk County Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, where he led efforts to defend and promote the constitutional rights of all Suffolk County residents, particularly around policing and criminal justice, immigrants’ rights, and education reform.
Amol is also an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College, where he has taught courses on constitutional law, civil rights, media law, and criminal justice. Additionally, Amol is the president of the South Asian Bar Association of New York and co-chair of the public interest committee of the South Asian Bar Association of North America.
Amol holds a B.A. in journalism and economics from New York University, and a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he was a Public Service Scholar.