Adrienne Wheeler
Adrienne Wheeler
Overview
Adrienne Wheeler received her undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College in 2001 and was part of a massive campaign to monitor police activities during protests during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. She co facilitated programs in New York where she distributed Know Your Rights information and provided training on Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues.After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Adrienne traveled to New Orleans where she conducted surveys on homeowner consent issues with residents living in hotels for local legal advocates. During graduate school she co authored a paper titled Civil Disobedience Threat Assessments and the Constructed Domestic Extremist with a New York attorney and presented it at the American Sociological Association National Conference. Adrienne earned a Masters degree from New York University where she focused on suspension of municipal law as a method of policing social movements and a J.D. from Loyola College of Law New Orleans.
Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana
Tackle systemic criminal justice deficiencies in Louisiana.
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