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This Monday (Nov. 9th), at 2pm sharp in EW 120, Melody Barnes, Director of White House Domestic Policy, will speak to students about law and domestic policy in the Obama administration.  The event is the result of a year-long effort by students and is co-sponsored by  the American Constitutional Society, Black Law Students Association, BC Law Democrats, Community Economic Development Law Group, and the Women’s Law Center.  

Melody Barnes is the President’s Domestic Policy Adviser and the Director of the Domestic Policy Council, which coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White House.

Before joining the White House, Barnes served as the Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to President Obama’s campaign. Prior to joining the campaign, she was the Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress. From 1995 to 2003, she served as Chief Counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In those capacities, and as Director of Legislative Affairs for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and assistant counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, she worked extensively on civil rights and voting rights, women’s health, religious liberties, and commercial law.

Barnes received her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received her law degree from the University of Michigan. She began her career as an attorney with Shearman & Sterling in New York City, and is a member of both the New York State Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar Association.

Please come to see Barnes speak!  Event organizers are taking care to make sure the event will end just before 3pm, so if you have class at that time, you won’t be late.