Magdalene Zier

Magdalene is a Ph.D. Candidate in History and holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School. Her research focuses on race, gender, and law in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. Her scholarship has been published the Stanford Law Review, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, and the Washington Post. Inspiring her historical research, Magdalene has worked on behalf of civil rights and social justice initiatives at organizations including the NAACP and Brennan Center for Justice.  She clerked for the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.