Harisha has also worked on Wholesale Interconnection matters at Qwest. Prior to his work at Qwest, Harisha was a Senior Associate at Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman LLP (now part of Bingham McCutchen LLP) where he represented competitive local exchange carriers on regulatory, litigation and appellate matters. Harisha is a 1992 graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and served on the Columbia Human Rights Law Review where he was an editor of The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual. Harisha received his Bachelor’s degree in 1989 from The Johns Hopkins University where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa.