Naomi M. Yitref

Naomi M. Yitref is a doctoral student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) Program at UC Berkeley Law. Just before that, she graduated Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Honors Sociology and Anthropology. From Seattle, Washington by way of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Naomi is the daughter of Ethiopian refugees and uses her personal socio-historical biography to inform her work around diasporic identity, mobility and legal tensions in Black immigrant/refugee communities. More generally, her legal research interests look at the role of law in identity, movement and power with an emphasis on critical race theory and justice. Naomi is a UC-HBCU Fellow, Yale Law Arthur Liman Fellow, and John Robert Lewis Fellow to name a few. Aside from her professional and academic world, Naomi loves poetry, chai tea and adventures!