Jordana Mosten

Jordana Mosten, a history major from Northridge, Calif., graduated from Rice University in 2006. She compiled legislative materials to lobby Congressmen about the PATRIOT Act in the Legislative Affairs Section of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Washington, D.C., in summer 2005. She presented the results of her research, “ACLU Legislative Strategies, Coalitions with Conservatives and the Patriot Act,” at the Baker Institute in August 2005. Jordana was founder of the ACLU at Rice University and was recommended for participation in the program by Joel Wolfe, professor of history at Rice University. Jordana was awarded the Garside Prize in History in 2006. She taught as part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET) in Fukui City, Japan, from 2006 to 2007, and in 2007 began studies at Stanford University Law School. In 2008 Jordana had internships at Community Legal Services in Palo Alto, Calif.; at Vinson & Elkins in Houston, Texas; and at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund in Washington, D.C. In 2009, she had internships at the International Human Rights Clinic in Stanford, Calif., and the ACLU of Southern California in Los Angeles, and in June was awarded the Linda Faye Williams Prize in Social Justice for students and alumni of Rice University. In 2010 she graduated from Stanford University Law School, and in summer of that year was an extern at the ACLU Immigrant Rights Project in San Francisco.