Jessie Appleby
An Iowa native, Jessie received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa in 2009 and her law degree from Georgetown in 2018, where she was the notes editor for the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. She is a member of the D.C. bar. Before joining FIRE, Jessie worked on war crimes and human rights violations for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Pristina, Kosovo, and, most recently, as a death penalty law clerk with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Columbus. Before law school, she also served in legislative affairs in the White House budget office and as an analyst in the Missile Defense Agency.
In her free time, Jessie can be found traveling with her sketchbook or exploring her new home of Philadelphia.
Recent Writings
- No, the Berkeley Law student didn’t have a First Amendment right to interrupt the dean’s backyard party,
- Cornell concedes small changes to otherwise substantially restrictive new speech policies ,
- Cornell falls short with new expression policy and guidance on faculty political speech ,
- VICTORY: Princeton amends no-contact order policy after FIRE/ADL letter,
- Princeton keeps letting students weaponize no-contact orders against student journalists ,
- Fired for OnlyFans? UW chancellor in hot water over adult-entertainment alter ego.,
- More colleges threaten to restrict speech in wake of Penn president’s resignation ,
- Brooklyn College silences pro-Palestinian student expression in misguided quest for campus peace ,
- University of Southern California relegates professor to remote teaching for expressing anti-Hamas sentiments,
- Machete madness: Hunter College professor calls pro-life display ‘violent,’ then threatens reporter with a massive blade for asking questions ,
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