Lauren DiMartino is an associate at Brown Goldstein & Levy where she represents clients across various areas of civil rights law, including fair housing, education and disability rights, police misconduct, and workplace discrimination. She clerked for Judge Martha Craig Daughtry on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and was previously the legal fellow at the University of Colorado School of Law’s Byron White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law. She graduated from the City University of New York School of Law with a concentration in Social Justice, Equality, and Civil Rights.
She has published her research on the opportunity gap in higher education, federal litigation for systematic change in public schools, reproductive rights, and the democratic jurisprudence of the Supreme Court. She previously taught persuasive legal writing and oral advocacy as adjunct faculty at CUNY Law. She remains active in education work and is on the advisory boards of the Urban Studies Program at Guttman Community College (CUNY) and of Baltimore Youth Arts. Prior to becoming an attorney, she worked in marketing before transitioning to work in New York City community colleges because of her commitment to racial and economic justice.