Claim: Eve Tushnet was raised in a secular Jewish household with her father Mark Tushnet and her mother Elizabeth Alexander, she is celibate.
Evidence: Raised in a "secular Jewish" household, she converted to Catholicism in 1998 at the age of 19 during her sophomore year. Her father is Mark Tushnet and her mother is Elizabeth Alexander, who directs the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.