Welcome Stephen A. Cohen and Aviva J. Vogelstein

Aviva Vogelstein and Stephen Cohen

Aviva Vogelstein and Stephen Cohen

The Louis D. Brandeis Center is pleased to welcome two new civil rights legal fellows, Stephen A. Cohen and Aviva J. Vogelstein. Cohen and Vogelstein’s appointments marks the Brandeis Center’s continued expansion, as the Washington, D.C.-based civil rights group grows to face the resurgent problem of anti-Semitism on American University campuses.

Stephen Cohen (Steve), who joins the Brandeis Center as a Senior Civil Rights Legal Fellow, is a Seattle lawyer admitted to practice law in the states of Washington and Oregon, the U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands and their respective Federal courts. Steve’s fields of practice previously encompassed taxation, business and commercial law, banking and financial services, real estate, estate planning, insurance, administrative law, bankruptcy and civil litigation. Steve received a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley; a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco; a LL.M. in corporation law from New York University School of Law, New York City; and a MBA in taxation from the Graduate School of Taxation of Golden Gate University, Seattle.

Aviva J. Vogelstein, who joins the Brandeis Center as a Civil Rights Legal Fellow, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, magna cum laude, with a BA in American History, and from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2013. She served as Hillel President at Penn, and was active in the Jewish Law Students Association at Cardozo. She gained extensive legal experience through Cardozo’s Bet Tzedek Legal Clinic, Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, and working for a solo practitioner. Aviva feels passionately about fighting anti-Semitism and advocating for Israel, and is very excited to be joining the LDB team.

LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus commented, “We are delighted to bring these two top-flight lawyers onboard. They will compliment the excellent staff of lawyers whom we have already assembled as we continue to fight anti-Semitism on college and university campuses across the United States.”