Samantha Fredrickson

Reporters Committee Legal Fellow, 2008-2009

Samantha recently graduated from New York Law School, where she served as the Coordinating Notes Editor of the New York Law School Law Review. She focused her studies on the First Amendment and constitutional law by working with the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Pro Se office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also spent a summer working at a media law firm in Boston. Prior to law school, Samantha earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Nevada, Reno and spent two years as a municipal government reporter for the Bucks County Courier Times in Pennsylvania. In college, she was the news editor for her campus newspaper, the Sagebrush, and spent a summer in Washington, D.C. interning at the Student Press Law Center.