Adina Marx-Arpadi

Adina Marx-Arpadi is a Staff Attorney with the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR) Project at CUNY Law. Prior to joining CLEAR, Adina was a Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), where she worked on issues of Palestine accountability and suppression, family policing, and immigration. Before CCR, Adina was a staff attorney in the Family Defense Practice at The Bronx Defenders, where she represented parents in abuse and neglect cases facing removal of their children. 

Adina is a proud graduate of CUNY School of Law, where she was a Student Attorney at CUNY CLEAR for three semesters. As a law student, Adina interned at Movement for Family Power, Palestine Legal, and CAIR-New York, and was active with CUNY Law’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA). Prior to law school, Adina was a doula with the Birthmark Doula Collective and was the Director of the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition (OPPRC) in New Orleans, where she helped lead efforts to abolish money bail for municipal offenses and oppose a jail expansion. Adina received her B.A. from Middlebury College.