Veronica Salama

Veronica Salama is a staff attorney at the New York Civil liberties Union. She works on the full range of civil rights and civil liberties issues, including the NYCLU’s work related to the criminal legal system, government transparency, and defending the rights of protestors.

Before joining the NYCLU, Veronica worked at the Southern Poverty Law Center in their Criminal Justice Reform Project. At SPLC, Veronica worked on a range of impact litigation cases, including a systemwide lawsuit challenging ICE’s unconstitutional detention practices. Through this lawsuit and related advocacy, she assisted in obtaining release for thousands of medically vulnerable immigrants from ICE detention amid COVID-19. During law school, Veronica participated as a student-attorney in the Criminal Defense & Reentry Clinic and the Juvenile Defenders Clinic, helping children, teenagers, and adults fight criminal charges in Brooklyn Criminal Court and Bronx Family Court. She spent her summers working on §1983 wrongful conviction, excessive force, and prison condition claims at the civil rights firms David B. Shanies Law office and Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP.

Veronica is a graduate of Macaulay Honors College at CUNY Hunter College and New York University School of Law, where she served as  Staff Development Editor for the NYU Review of Law and Social Change.