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Stephanie Llanes
Stephanie Llanes is a Bertha Justice Institute Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works in the Government Misconduct Racial Justice docket. Stephanie earned her J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she worked as a Research Assistant to Professor john a. powell and studied structural racism, implicit bias, housing, opportunity, democracy and social mobility. Stephanie also served as co-president of the Latino Law Students Association (La Raza); articles editor for the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy; advocate for the Post-Conviction Advocacy Clinic; and member of the Board of Advocates Mock Trial Team, where she became a National Champion. She was a recipient of La Raza’s Cruz Reynoso Social Justice Fellowship.