Laura B. Petty graduated from Fordham Law School in May 2021 and will begin a law fellowship at the National Education Association’s Office of General Counsel in September 2021. In September 2022, she will begin a one-year clerkship for Magistrate Judge James L. Cott in the Southern District of New York. Laura formerly chaired the Advisory Board of The Bell, and interned at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Education Policy Center, the Century Foundation, the Legal Aid Society’s Education Advocacy Project, and the Center for Educational Equity. Laura’s law school note, The Way Forward: Permissible and Effective Race-Conscious Strategies for Avoiding Racial Segregation in Diverse School Districts, was published in 2020. During the 2019–20 school year, Laura served as the Feerick Center for Social Justice’s Amanda Rose Laura Education Fellow, where her research focused on high school admissions in New York City. Laura is a former high school English teacher and holds a master’s degree in Education Policy from Teachers College, Columbia University.
