Patrick Archer is serving as a 2025-2026 legal fellow at Public Rights Project. Prior to the fellowship, Patrick completed a fellowship at Public Justice with the Students’ Civil Rights Project, where he assisted in litigating high-impact harassment and discrimination cases on behalf of students across the country.

Patrick received his Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, where he was an article selection editor for the Review of Law and Social Change and a Paul Weiss student fellow at the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. While in law school, he also participated in the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic, served as a judicial extern at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and spent his summers interning with the Bronx Legal Services’ Education Law Unit and the National Center for Youth Law.

Before law school, Patrick was a middle school math teacher. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in political science and peace, war, and defense. Patrick is now based in Brooklyn, New York.