Amanda Antholt

Background

About Amanda Antholt

I am a Senior Attorney in Equip for Equality's Civil Rights Team. EFE is a private, non-profit disability rights organization. My work focuses on the intersection of disability and the criminal justice system. Prior to joining EFE, I spent 12 years in private practice litigating civil right cases including involving police misconduct, prisoners’ rights, and employment discrimination. I have taught courses on civil rights litigation as an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Chicago-Kent College of Law. Prior to attending law school, I spent several years working for the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence. There, my work on public policy issues and staffing a clemency project for women who were wrongly incarcerated inspired me to go to law school. During law school, I was lucky to obtain wonderful clerkships with the New York Legal Aid Society’s Prisoners’ Rights Project and the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project. While in Madison, throughout law school, I worked with the public interest law firm Garvey & Stoddard on a class action challenge to the conditions of confinement at the Wisconsin Supermax prison. Specialties: Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation