Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience
2021 – 2022

Elyssa Spitzer, J.D., is the fourth Senior Fellow in Law and Neuroscience. Elyssa was a Justice Catalyst Legal Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where her work focused on developing new legal theories for protecting and advancing reproductive rights and justice. Prior to CRR, Elyssa led a legal research project surveying U.S. criminal law and developing national performance benchmarks for the criminal justice system as a Senior Legal Researcher at the nonprofit Measures for Justice. Elyssa clerked in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School.