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Jacek Pruski

Jacek Pruski

Jacek Pruski previously served as Counsel at Protect Democracy and as Managing Director and General Counsel of We The Action. He was also the Policy Director for America Forward and New Profit. Before that, he served as Associate General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education, where his portfolio included civil rights litigation, regulatory drafting, oversight, and strategic projects. From 2015 to 2016, he served as Principal Deputy Associate Counsel at the White House.  Previously, from 2011 to 2015, he served as a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented the federal government in significant constitutional, administrative-law, and Freedom of Information Act litigation. From 2010 to 2011, Pruski clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a graduate of Stanford University (J.D., M.P.P.) and the University of Iowa (B.S., B.A.).