Emanuel Powell

Emanuel Powell is a Skadden Fellow and staff attorney at ArchCity Defenders in St. Louis, Missouri. His cousin Ronnie Shorter was killed by five police officers with the Greenville, Mississippi police department in 2017. His work focuses on providing legal support to other families of those who have been killed by the police or have died in state custody. Powell graduated from Harvard Law School, where he won the Gary Bellow Public Service Award. His work has been published in the Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review and the American Criminal Law Review Online.

Education

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) Harvard Law School (2016 — 2019)
• Shri K Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute (2015 — 2015)
• B.S. University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business (2008 — 2012)
• Certificate-Semester Abroad Peking University-Guanghua School of Management (2011 — 2011)

Companies

• Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney ArchCity Defenders (2020)
• Adjunct Professor, Reuben V. Anderson Pre-Law Scholars Program Tougaloo College (2020)
• Law Clerk to the Honorable Carlton W. Reeves U.S. District Courts (2019 — 2020)
• Student Attorney Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (2017 — 2019)
• Legal Intern ArchCity Defenders (2018 — 2018)
• Summer Associate Kirkland & Ellis (2018 — 2018)
• Legal Intern ArchCity Defenders (2017 — 2017)
• Senior Associate Consultant The Bridgespan Group (2014 — 2016)
• Associate Consultant The Bridgespan Group (2014 — 2014)

Skills

• Social Entrepreneurship
• Business Strategy
• Market Research

Other

Qualitative Research, Management Consulting, Nonprofits, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling