Andrew Christy

Title/Position

Senior Staff Attorney, Criminal Justice & Poverty

Department

Legal

Pronouns

He, Him, His

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)