Amy Bach was born on 1968 and is an American a journalist, attorney, and author of Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court, for which she won the 2010 Robert F Kennedy Book Award.
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Amy Bach is the Founder and Executive Director of Measures for Justice, a nonprofit that collects and publishes county-level criminal justice performance data.
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Amy Bach founded the organization after she published her book.
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Amy Bach earned her bachelor's in English and American Literature at Brown University in Rhode Island and was a Knight Foundation Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School where she received her master's degree in law.
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Amy Bach was the recipient of an Echoing Green Fellowship in 2011 and earned her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1998.
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Amy Bach has received fellowships from Soros Media, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a special J Anthony Lucas citation.
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Amy Bach is a member of the New York bar, and has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Rochester.
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In 2020, Amy Bach was awarded the Dial Fellowship, named after a journal founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and funded by Laurene Powell Jobs, through the Emerson Collective, a social change organization.
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Amy Bach worked as a freelance journalist, writing for The New York Times, The Nation, Slate, The American Lawyer, and New York Magazine.
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In 2001, Amy Bach wrote an article titled "Justice on the Cheap," published in The Nation.
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Amy Bach, who spent eight years investigating the failure of the courts, and utilizing her background as an attorney and journalist, wrote her book, Ordinary Justice, which was published in 2009.
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In 2011, following the publication of her book, Amy Bach Founded Measures for Justice, a nonprofit that collects and publishes county-level criminal justice performance data, where she serves as the Executive director.
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Amy Bach is married to John Markman, a doctor at the University of Rochester Medical Center.