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Person-Post: Dr Akisha Townsend, JD – Associate Fellow

9th July 2008

Recently received her Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center and is a Bob Barker Litigation Fellow at the Humane Society of the United States. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree with distinction from Stanford University after spending time studying Animal Theology at the University of Oxford as a visiting student. She has served two consecutive terms as the Student Vice-Chair for the American Bar Association’s Animal Law Committee and is the current Chair of the Diversity Subcommittee. As a law student, she clerked with a number of animal protection organizations in the areas of companion and farm animal protection. She recently completed a legislative fellowship in the office of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, where she crafted legislative solutions to protect America’s horses. She served as President of the Georgetown University Law Center Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Animal Law at Michigan State University College of Law. In 2009, she was one of two North American students awarded an Advancement in Animal Law Scholarship from the Animal Legal Defense Fund.