JONATHAN MARKOVITZ

Staff Attorney

ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties

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Before starting law school, Markovitz earned a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and taught courses in sociology, communication, ethnic studies, and writing at UCSD and other area universities. He has written and taught about race, gender, popular culture, social movements, and collective memory. Markovitz is the author of Legacies of Lynching: Racial Violence and Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race and Justice (Routledge, 2011). During law school, he externed for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles. Following graduation from the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, he clerked for Judge John C. Coughenour of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle. He has been at the ACLU since 2015.