Megan Haberle, Economic Opportunity Fellow & Associate Counsel

Megan most recently served as an associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, where she focused on securities fraud and complex commercial litigation. Working in a pro bono capacity, she was instrumental in advocating for a Constitutional right of access to postconviction DNA testing within the Second Circuit. While at Columbia Law School, she worked with the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit, the California Appellate Project, and Advancement Project, and participated in a rebuilding trip to New Orleans. Prior to law school, Megan was a paralegal at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she specialized in school-to-prison pipeline research, indigent defense reform, and racial profiling litigation. She has also worked as an English teacher in Daegu, Republic of Korea.

Megan holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, and a B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology from Swarthmore College.