Lisa Kung          

         Ms. Kung, Director, joined the Center in 1999 as a staff attorney.  Her work focused on litigating prison and jail conditions in Georgia and Alabama.  She became Director in 2006.

          She is a 1997 graduate of New York University Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Review of Law and Social Change. Following law school, Ms. Kung was a Rockefeller Brother Fund Fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. She then returned to Atlanta to work at the Law Center for the Homeless as a Soros Justice Fellow. Her undergraduate joint degree in physics and philosophy is from Emory University.  She is a member of the Georgia bar.

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