News & Commentary written by Farrin Anello

Farrin Anello is a Skadden fellow at the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project (IRP). She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, where she served as a student director for the Immigration Clinic of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, and was awarded the Charles G. Albom Prize for judicial/administrative appellate advocacy. She was also a Coker teaching fellow, a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal, and a member of the civil liberties and national security litigation section of the Allard J. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic. Farrin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, and the Honorable Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to joining IRP, Farrin worked as a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York. She is a director of the Refugee Reunification Project Fund, an organization that provides travel grants to support reunification of asylees and their families.