Olivia Murray

Olivia Murray is a second-year JD at Harvard Law School. Olivia is a student attorney with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and Harvard Defenders, where she also serves as Community Director. She is also the Public Interest Committee Chair for the Harvard Black Law Students Association, and a member of the teaching staff for several courses, including a Prison Abolition seminar at Harvard College. Olivia has done legal work in the areas of public defence, death penalty litigation, and family law. Prior to law school, Olivia attended Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she graduated with a B.A. in Political Science in 2020. While there, she interned with the Southern Centre for Human Rights, and served as a student justice on the Student Judicial Board. She was also the Academic Development Chair of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, where she helped fellow Black students navigate the law school admissions process.  

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Reformists Overtook US Political Discourse On Ending Police Violence And Changed Nothing

Reformists Overtook US Political Discourse On Ending Police Violence And Changed Nothing

Over a year ago, in the midst of the uprisings that followed the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, myself and other activists, organisers and prison industrial complex abolitionists warned that yet another unimaginative ...