Jennifer Holloway is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Tzedek DC, sponsored by PayPal and Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe LLP. Her project works to alleviate medical debt in DC. The project focuses on providing legal services to DC residents with low incomes with medical debt, providing community education sessions on topics related to medical debt, and working towards systemic change in how medical debt is carried by DC hospitals.

During law school, Jennifer was a legal intern with the Office of the New York State Attorney General’s Health Care Bureau, where she helped investigate consumer complaints on charity care laws and network adequacy requirements for insurance companies to help end illegal practices. She also worked as a summer law clerk for the National Center for Youth Law, where she assisted in ongoing impact litigation cases to end abuses within the child welfare system and expand due process protections for children. Prior to law school, Jennifer served as an AmeriCorps VISTA, helping expand access to after-school and summer meals throughout Texas. During graduate school, she worked with a collective impact movement in East St. Louis to improve after-school programs and increase awareness of summer meal programs.

Jennifer received a Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University, where she majored in American Studies and Psychology. She also holds a Master of Social Work degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley. Jennifer graduated from Berkeley with Pro Bono Honors and a certificate in Public Interest and Social Justice. Jennifer is licensed in the District of Columbia and New York.