Chaz Arnett
Staff Attorney
Chaz Arnett joined Advancement Project in 2011 as a staff attorney in the “Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track” program. His work is focused on assisting and promoting a national campaign to end the harsh and unfair school disciplinary measures that push children off of an academic track and on to a track to prison. Arnett graduated from Morehouse College in 2003 with a degree in Sociology and Criminal Justice. He earned his juris doctorate degree from Harvard Law School in 2006. While at Harvard he represented indigent clients in criminal cases at Roxbury District Court in Boston, Massachusetts as a student attorney with the Criminal Justice Institute. After law school he worked as a trial attorney with Orleans Public Defenders in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he represented over 200 clients at a time with misdemeanor and felony cases and handled a wide array of legal proceedings from jury trials to mental health competency hearings. In 2009 he accepted the Satter Legal Research Fellowship from Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program. Arnett’s host organization for the fellowship was the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), in Cape Town, South Africa. During the fellowship year he worked with ICTJ’s Zimbabwe Unit and spent time in both South Africa and Zimbabwe, advocating for the rights of Zimbabwean refugees and assisting in the constitutional development and re-drafting process.
Chaz Arnett is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Louisiana.
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