Celine Zhu is a Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on issues of sexual and gender-based violence, LGBTQI+ persecution, discriminatory policing, environmental racism in the U.S. South, and abusive immigration practices. Prior to coming to the Center for Constitutional Rights, Celine worked at the Lawyers Alliance for New York, where she provided transactional legal services to nonprofits serving low-income New Yorkers. As a legal intern, she worked on challenging racially discriminatory voting systems at the ACLU Voting Rights Project and conducted reproductive rights policy research at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. Celine is a graduate of Barnard College and the New York University School of Law. At NYU, she was a Root-Tilden-Kern scholar and Digital Articles Editor of the Review of Law and Social Change, where she worked with incarcerated authors to publish their written and artistic works. As a part of the NYU Law Civil Rights Clinic, Celine supported a community-led effort to oppose the construction of a racially discriminatory infrastructure project in the U.S. South.