Asher Waite-Jones ’16 is a clinical supervisor in the Policy Advocacy Clinic. Asher joins Berkeley Law after eight years as a legal aid attorney in California and Indiana. As a legal aid lawyer, he provided direct representation to youth and adults in multiple states in cases related to the consequences of racialized mass incarceration, including criminalization of homelessness, fines and fees, drivers-license revocation, and vehicle tows.
Prior to law school, Asher worked as a paralegal for the Western District Office of the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, assisting attorneys in investigating, filing, and litigating lawsuits on behalf of incarcerated people against prisons and jails across Western Pennsylvania. He speaks Yiddish.