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Andrew Christy is the Criminal Justice and Poverty Attorney working on debtors’ prison issues out of the ACLU of Pennsylvania’s Philadelphia office. He is a 2012 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, and his undergraduate degree is in political science and women’s studies from the University of Delaware. After law school, Andrew clerked for a state court judge in northern Virginia and a federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C. From 2014-2016, he was a fellow at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, where he worked on a variety of disability rights issues. From 2016-2018, he worked as the ACLU of Pennsylvania's Independence Foundation Fellow before completing his fellowship and taking on his new title. (Philadelphia)