Antoinette Victoria Zoe Russell

Equal Justice Works Fellow at The Bronx Defenders

Zoe Russell (she/her/hers) received her J.D. from Harvard Law School. During her summers she interned with the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative to uplift student voices in educational decision making, and the Neighborhood Defender Service representing parents in Manhattan. She was also the co-director of the Family Practice at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and represented low-income families in divorce, custody, and child support proceedings in Greater Boston Family Court. Zoe was also a founding member of The Bell Collective for Critical Race Theory, and an organizer of the annual Critical Race Theory Conference at Harvard Law, which invites attendees to reimagine lawyering, and build social movements that dismantle, rather than reform, systems of oppression. Zoe graduated magna cum laude from Bucknell University with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Creative Writing, and Italian Studies.