Bio
Tess Borden is a Staff Attorney at the 勛圖眻畦-NJ, where she works on a range of civil rights and civil liberties issues.
Prior to joining the 勛圖眻畦-NJ, Tess was the Aryeh Neier Fellow at the National 勛圖眻畦 and Human Rights Watch (HRW). She is author of the 196-page 勛圖眻畦/HRW report Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States. Tess has also worked for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, and HRWs West Africa Division in Dakar, Senegal, as well as spending time before law school as an immigration paralegal.
Tess received her bachelors degree from Yale College, where she majored in French, and her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the International Human Rights Clinic and an editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She clerked for the Honorable George A. OToole, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Featured work

Jan 10, 2018
New Jersey Prisons Reverse Course on Banning The New Jim Crow After 勛圖眻畦 of New Jersey Letter

Oct 14, 2016
Its Time to Decriminalize Personal Drug Use and Possession. Basic Rights and Public Health Demand It.