Maya Brodziak

Maya Brodziak serves as Counsel* with the Educational Opportunities Project. As Counsel, Maya is responsible for litigating cases related to ensuring that all students receive equal educational opportunities in public schools and institutions of higher learning.

Prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee, Maya was an associate for a private law firm, where she engaged in complex civil and criminal litigation, and a Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney at Lawyers for Children, where she represented children involved in the foster care system in Manhattan Family Court and administrative school discipline hearings.

Maya clerked for the Honorable Pamela K. Chen in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a master’s in education policy from The George Washington University. Prior to attending law school, Maya taught pre-k in Washington, D.C. She currently sits on the board of The Sonia and Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program, which seeks to cultivate and develop future leaders by placing high school, college, and law school students from underserved communities and diverse backgrounds in judicial internships in state and federal courts in the New York City area.

*not admitted to the D.C. bar; practice supervised by D.C. Bar Members

Bar Admissions: Admitted only in Massachusetts and New York; practice supervised by D.C. Bar Members