Jeff’s work focuses on litigation that advances real community safety for everyone. He has been involved in combating pretrial jailing systems and other aspects of the punishment bureaucracy in Texas, California, Louisiana, North Carolina, and other jurisdictions around the country.

Jeff joined Civil Rights Corps after nearly a decade at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. While there, Jeff represented people charged with serious crimes, supervised attorneys, conducted trainings for the defense bar, and developed strategic challenges to police misconduct, forensics, and more. He was also selected by the International Legal Foundation for a fellowship in the West Bank, where he helped supervise and train four public defender offices.

Jeff received his J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was an Arthur Garfield Hayes Civil Rights Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Slate, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.