Her practice includes cases involving disability rights, civil rights, wage and hour violations, and appeals. She has handled LGBT rights cases involving discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in contexts ranging from employment to students’ exercise of their First Amendment rights. Prior to joining BGL, Jessie served as the 2010-2011 Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. Appellate Advocacy Fellow at the Public Justice Center, where she represented clients and authored amicus briefs in federal and Maryland appellate courts on a variety of civil rights and anti-poverty issues. Jessie graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School, where she co-directed the LGBT Rights Litigation Clinic. Following law school, Jessie clerked for the Honorable Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.