Chris is excited to join Chicago Lawyers’ Committee as Program Counsel with the Education Equity Team where he will continue his work on disparate school discipline and discrimination issues. Chris began his legal career in 2012 with the ACLU of Northern California as the Racial Justice Project Fellow, where he worked on school to prison pipeline issues as a member of the Education Equity team. Chris began his work at the Equal Justice Society in Oakland as the Butler Koshland Fellow and was later hired full time to focus his advocacy on school discipline and education issues as well as inequities within the criminal justice system. To aid in these efforts, Chris used social science, structural analysis, and real-life experiences to help broaden conceptions of present-day discrimination to include implicit bias. Chris Bridges is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. He also holds an MS in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University and a BS in Political Science and BA in Criminal Justice, both from North Carolina Central University.

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You can contact Chris Bridges at cbridges@clccrul.org.