Jackson Killilea is a rising 2L at Harvard Law School. Originally from Barrington, Rhode Island, he graduated magna cum laude from Kenyon College in 2023 with a BA in Sociology and a concentration in Law and Society. Before law school, Jackson worked as an intake coordinator in the civil rights division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where he assisted constituents facing discrimination in housing, employment, and education. He also contributed to the Police Accountability Unit’s investigations into patterns or practices of racially biased policing across Massachusetts. Outside the AGO, he coached the junior varsity ultimate frisbee team at Boston College High School in Dorchester. In law school, Jackson is involved in the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project, the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and his section’s intramural basketball team. Killilea will spend his summer in the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ Children and Family Law Division. His mentors are Susan Finegan, member and chair of the pro bono committee at Mintz and Rappaport Center board member, as well as Jon Miller, chief program officer for the Public Rights Project.