Johari Menelik Frasier

Johari Menelik Frasier (he/him/his) earned his J.D. from New York University (NYU) School of Law, where he served as a Managing Editor for the New York University Review of Law & Social Change, was a member of the NYU Black Allied Law Students Association’s Public Interest Committee, served as director of the Access Project with Ending the Prison Industrial Complex, and sang with NYU Law’s a cappella group Substantial Performance. While in law school, Johari participated as a student advocate in the Federal Defender Clinic and was the Palmer Weber Fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Program for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. He has interned at the Center for Popular Democracy in their Voting Rights and Democracy Project, The Bronx Defenders in their Criminal Defense Practice, and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice in their Civil Rights practice where his work focused on fair housing. Johari holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Humanities from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a certificate from the Circle in the Square Theater School Professional Musical Theater Workshop.