Sam Rosen

Sam is a Justice Catalyst Fellow at Gerstein Harrow, where he works on independent defense and civil rights cases. Before joining the firm he clerked on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for Justice Serge Georges, Jr. In 2021 Sam graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was a training director for the Tenant Advocacy Project and a teaching fellow for Professor Jon Hanson. He spent his law school summers at Civil Rights Corps and on the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

Prior to law school Sam worked as a researcher at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and as a cashier on a farm in Vermont. He received a B.A. from Brown University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and won the W.E.B. DuBois Award for best thesis in Africana Studies. He has written for The Atlantic, Boston Review, The Ringer, and GQ, among others, and enjoys basketball, pasta, and board games.