Vivian Brady-Phillips is a graduate of New York University School of Law where she was a Root Tilden scholar and member of the New York University Law Review. Ms. Brady-Phillips currently oversees external relations, communications and special projects and coordinates strategic planning for the organization. Prior to joining the Leadership Academy, she was an associate attorney at Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss, LLP, where she practiced union-side labor law and represented low-wage workers in wage disputes. She has also worked as an associate attorney at the New York offices of both Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Kramer Levin, and as a program officer at New Visions for Public Schools. After graduating from law school, she clerked for the Honorable William H. Walls, United States District Court Judge in Newark, New Jersey.