Morgan Zamora
Policy Law Clerk
Oakland, California
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Morgan is a Law Clerk working with the Policy team as part of the UC Hastings Bridge Fellowship Program. Morgan received her J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law in May of 2022. During law school, Morgan served as a law clerk with the Contra Costa Public Defenders office as well as with Root & Rebound providing direct services through the Reentry Legal Hotline. As part of the Community Group Advocacy Clinic, Morgan worked with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and the Dignity Not Detention Coalition on A Budget to Save Lives – a legislative policy proposal focused on divestment from prisons and community investment in immigrant integration and alternatives to incarceration. This winter, Morgan will be publishing an article tentatively titled “Undeniably Dangerous: The False Presumption that Latiné Identity Presents an Inherent Threat and is More Deserving of Death” in issue 20.1 of the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal. Morgan was a member of the Latinx Law Student Association and the Hastings Public Interest Law Foundation.
Morgan received her Bachelor of Social Work and minor in Ethnic Studies from the University of Nevada, Reno. During this time, she worked for the ASUN Center for Student Engagement and the Nevada Policy Practice Academy developing programming aimed at increasing democratic engagement in marginalized student populations and training those groups on the state legislative process and how to advocate for policies regarding restorative justice in education, affordable housing, and juvenile detention reform. Morgan also served as the President of A.B.L.E. Women – a multicultural, diversity organization focused on female leadership in the local community.
Morgan enjoys baking, football season, and spending as much time as possible with friends and family.
Morgan Zamora
Policy Law Clerk
Oakland, California
Email Morgan
Morgan is a Law Clerk working with the Policy team as part of the UC Hastings Bridge Fellowship Program. Morgan received her J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law in May of 2022. During law school, Morgan served as a law clerk with the Contra Costa Public Defenders office as well as with Root & Rebound providing direct services through the Reentry Legal Hotline. As part of the Community Group Advocacy Clinic, Morgan worked with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and the Dignity Not Detention Coalition on A Budget to Save Lives – a legislative policy proposal focused on divestment from prisons and community investment in immigrant integration and alternatives to incarceration. This winter, Morgan will be publishing an article tentatively titled “Undeniably Dangerous: The False Presumption that Latiné Identity Presents an Inherent Threat and is More Deserving of Death” in issue 20.1 of the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal. Morgan was a member of the Latinx Law Student Association and the Hastings Public Interest Law Foundation.
Morgan received her Bachelor of Social Work and minor in Ethnic Studies from the University of Nevada, Reno. During this time, she worked for the ASUN Center for Student Engagement and the Nevada Policy Practice Academy developing programming aimed at increasing democratic engagement in marginalized student populations and training those groups on the state legislative process and how to advocate for policies regarding restorative justice in education, affordable housing, and juvenile detention reform. Morgan also served as the President of A.B.L.E. Women – a multicultural, diversity organization focused on female leadership in the local community.
Morgan enjoys baking, football season, and spending as much time as possible with friends and family.
Why do you come to work at Root & Rebound every day?
To give humanity to those who have been stripped of it. Black, Latiné, Native, immigrant, and other marginalized populations have been made to suffer at the hands of a system that was created for them to fail. Real justice means restoring communities through compassion, access to resources, and opportunities that they have long been denied.
“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”
– Bryan Stevenson
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