Emma Hulse

Emma Curran Donnelly Hulse is an Education Counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union. Emma’s practice is rooted in her experience as a parent organizer at the Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation in East New York and the New Settlement Parent Action Committee in the Bronx. During law school, Emma participated in the Youth and Justice, Immigrant Family, and Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinics and interned at the ACLU of Southern California and Advocates for Children of New York. She was the co-chair of the Education and the Law Society and the El Centro Education Rights Clinic and a staff member of the UCLA Law Review.

Before coming to the NYCLU, Emma clerked for the New York Court of Appeals and the Southern District of New York. Emma holds a B.A. from Columbia University, a M.A. in Latin American Studies from UCLA, and a J.D. with a specialization in Public Interest Law and Policy and Critical Race Studies from the UCLA School of Law. Emma was a Fulbright Fellow in Guatemala in 2009-2010.