Alexandra “Aly” Kersley is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.
Aly joined the firm after completing a clerkship with the Honorable Chief Judge Rowan D. Wilson of the New York Court of Appeals, where she prepared memoranda, reviewed criminal leave applications and civil motions for leave to appeal, and drafted opinions.
Aly received her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she was awarded the Dean’s Scholar Prizes in Legislation and Regulations; Contracts; Crimmigration: The Intersection of Criminal Law and Immigration Law; and Crimmigration Clinic. While at Harvard, she was a clinical student attorney for the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, where she conducted research and drafted motions in support of federal litigation related to immigrant rights and detention centers and represented clients seeking humanitarian relief in the immigration court and before the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Aly received her M.Sc., with distinction, from Oxford University, and her A.B., magna cum laude, from Princeton University, where she was awarded the Kenneth Maxwell Senior Thesis Prize in Brazilian and Portuguese Studies.