Samantha Harris
Director, Spotlight: The Campus Freedom Resource
Samantha K. Harris, a Philadelphia native, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and from Princeton University, where she earned an A.B.
magna cum laude in politics. As an undergraduate, Samantha completed a senior thesis that analyzed the constitutional implications of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s quality-of-life initiative in New York City. During law school, she served on the editorial board of the
Journal of Constitutional Law. Before joining FIRE, Samantha clerked for the late Honorable Jay C. Waldman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and most recently was an associate at the law firm of Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia.
Contributions
- "UNC-Chapel Hill Tries to Spin Away a Major Defeat," Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris, Daily Journal, May 25, 2006
- "FIRE Policy Statement on ‘Hosty v. Carter’," Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris, September 19, 2005
- "Oxy President's Departure Doesn't Erase Speech Issue," Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris, Daily Journal, July 6, 2005