Jessica Feierman
Jessica Feierman is the senior managing director at Juvenile Law Center, where she oversees projects and programs and engages in legal and policy advocacy focused on transforming the justice system to ensure the rights, dignity, equity and opportunity for youth. Jessica currently co-leads a national effort to end the harmful and discriminatory practice of imposing fines and fees in the juvenile justice system. She also works toward the goal of ending youth prisons and supporting youth and families in their homes and communities. This work includes litigation to end harsh conditions like solitary confinement combined with partnerships with community advocates working toward youth prison abolition.
Jessica has co-authored numerous appellate and amicus briefs in federal courts. Her deep interest in community and youth activism led her to launch Juveniles for Justice, a program of Juvenile Law Center that supports justice system-involved youth in becoming advocates for change. Jessica presents and publishes regularly on these issues.
Prior to joining Juvenile Law Center, Jessica was a litigation fellow at the ACLU National Prison Project; a teaching fellow in the Georgetown University Law Center's Street Law in the Community Program; and a law clerk to the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Jessica is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was awarded an LLM in advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center.