| Elena Goldstein completed her first year at Harvard Law School. She studied philosophy and political science at the University of Michigan. After graduating in 1997, she spent two years teaching third grade at P.S. 152, an elementary school in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. While teaching, she helped to develop a thematic fourth grade curriculum, currently being implemented in three New York City elementary schools, and served as a Teach for America site coordinator.
Elena is an editor of Harvard's Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review and a member of the Prison Legal Assistance Project. She also works as a research assistant for Professor Lani Guinier, and has recently been researching models of parent advocacy programs and helping to write a handbook about creating multi-racial learning communities. She has two cats and likes to cook. |