Ian Vandewalker is a Legal Fellow with the U.S. Legal Program. Prior to joining the Center, he served as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellow in Nonprofit Law at the Vera Institute of Justice, where he worked in the general counsel's office. Before that, Vandewalker clerked for the Honorable Frederic Block of the Eastern District of New York. He earned his JD cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he served on the boards of the NYU Review of Law and Social Change and Law Students for Reproductive Justice. During law school, he was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow; his areas of focus for the fellowship were the First Amendment and reproductive rights. He holds an MA in philosophy from Indiana University and a BA from New College of Florida.