Paloma Wu - Deputy Director of the George Riley Impact Litigation Initiative
Paloma Wu serves as Deputy Director of the George Riley Impact Litigation Initiative at the Mississippi Center for Justice. She has litigated cases challenging racial bias in policing and police hiring, discrimination against persons with disabilities, youth jail and prison conditions, and laws targeting free speech and the right to vote. Wu runs a statewide protester legal support network and represents protesters in civil and criminal proceedings. Paloma was previously Acting Senior Supervising Attorney for Criminal Justice Reform at the Southern Poverty Law Center; Legal Director of the ACLU of Mississippi; and an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where she litigated securities matters. Before becoming a lawyer, Wu was an investigator for death-sentenced people in a capital habeas unit, and she served on a legal team representing all people with mental illness in California prisons.