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Terah Tollner

Terah Tollner is a second-year law student at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she is pursuing a career in civil rights litigation. During her time in law school, she has worked at Beyond Legal Aid, the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, and Northwestern’s Community Justice and Civil Rights Litigation Clinic, where she has assisted in litigation fighting for government transparency, an end to cash bond, and the transformation of policing practices in Chicago. Terah is a member of Northwestern University Law Review, the president of the law school’s reproductive justice club, and the chapter leader of the National Lawyers Guild at Northwestern. She is a teaching assistant for Communication and Legal Reasoning and enjoys tutoring during study hall for NPEP’s legal writing course. Terah was first introduced to NPEP by enrolling in “Violence Reduction and Transformative Change in Justice Systems,” taught at Stateville Correctional Center in 2019. Prior to Northwestern, Terah earned her BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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