Susan J. Feathers is an experienced public interest lawyer and
administrator with 28 years of experience. She is the director of public interest and pro bono
at Rutgers Law School in Newark, where she oversees the public
interest career advising, public interest fellowships, and
service-learning programs. Feathers has been engaged in social
justice work for 30 years and currently serves on the Equal Justice
Works Advisory Board and the NYC Bar Association's Pro
Bono Committee. Her prior experience includes serving as the executive director of
the Levin Public Interest Center at Stanford Law School, the assistant dean for public interest at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the director of public interest programs at Yale Law School. She
served as a clinical fellow for the Hofstra Law School's Constitutional
Rights, Housing, and Disability
Clinics. She began her career at the Legal Aid Society, Criminal
Appeals Bureau in Manhattan.
Feathers received her J.D. from Northeastern Law School and her B.A. and M.A. summa cum laude in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
