Katherine Greenier

Katherine Greenier is the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of VA Patricia M. Arnold Women’s Rights Project. The Patricia M. Arnold Women’s Rights Project combats gender bias in Virginia by protecting and advancing the equal rights of women through public education, advocacy, and litigation. Key areas of concern include equal educational and economic opportunities for women, reproductive rights, violence against women, and the treatment of incarcerated women. She is an alum of New York Law School (NYLS), where she focused her studies on constitutional law and social justice advocacy. Katherine served as co-chair of the NYLS Justice Action Center's Street Law Project and head of the campus arm of the American Civil Liberties Union. In her second year at NYLS, Katherine was a law student advocate in the Urban Law Clinic where she represented low-income clients in special education hearings and employment discrimination mediation. Katherine also worked with the NYLS Justice Action Center's Racial Justice Project on "school to prison pipeline" and other education issues, conducting research, assisting in impact litigation, and working with a team of students to research and write an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the University of Texas in the appeal of Fisher v. Texas, before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to attending NYLS, Katherine graduated from Mount Holyoke College, with a major in history and minor in political science.