Ms. Diller coordinates the Brennan Center's legislative and public education campaign to eliminate the private money restriction on legal services programs and works on other initiatives in the Center's Access to Justice Project. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Ms. Diller served as a staff attorney at and then director of the New York Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Rights Project, where she oversaw litigation, legislative and public education initiatives. Previously, she represented low-income clients in housing and government benefits cases at Legal Services for the Elderly in Queens and at Housing Works, Inc. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where was an Arthur Garfield Hays fellow, and her B.A. from Rutgers University.

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Jonathan Hafetz directs litigation for the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. Mr. Hafetz focuses on a range of post-September 11 detention issues, government secrecy, and immigrants' rights. Before coming to the Brennan Center, Mr. Hafetz was a John J. Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., and an attorney at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. Mr. Hafetz clerked for Judge Sandra L. Lynch of the U.S Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he received honors for his advocacy and scholarship, and a B.A. from Amherst College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. Mr. Hafetz also holds a masters degree in history with high honors from Oxford University and served as a Fulbright scholar in Mexico. He is the author of numerous articles in scholarly and popular publications, including the Yale Law Journal, California Western Law Review, and Fordham Journal of International Law, Legal Affairs, and the New York Law Journal. Mr. Hafetz is currently writing a book on post-9/11 detentions and habeas corpus, which will be published by NYU Press. He frequently serves as an expert commentator for television and radio on liberty and national security issues.

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