Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is an attorney with the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. She earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1997, specializing in Afro-American Studies. She earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2001. Before joining the Brennan Center she worked at the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP. She is the author of Housing in the Heartland: An Examination of the Hollman v. Cisneros Consent Decree, 17 Nat'l Black L.J. 98-123 (2003), and most recently co-authored along with Ari Weisbard What Albany Could Learn from New York City: A Model of Meaningful Campaign Finance Reform in Action in 1 Albany Gov't L.R. 194 (2008).