Rupali is a founding member of the Lawyering Project, where she has focused on challenging laws attacking minors’ rights to bodily integrity and dignity, and the rights to free expression and religious freedom. Rupali was an adjunct professor at the University of Maine School of Law, frequently guest lectures at NYU School of Law, and taught at Yale Law School. Before joining the Lawyering Project, she was a Legal Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she successfully challenged unlawful abortion restrictions in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt and Mellet v. Ireland. Rupali clerked for Chief Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and for Judge Matthew F. Kennelly on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She has also worked at the Supreme Court of India. Rupali received a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. magna cum laude from Northwestern University. She is licensed to practice law in Maine and serves on the Board of Directors of SAFE, Maine’s only abortion fund.
