Beverly Jones
Beverly Jones is Assistant General Counsel at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. Beverly joined Vera in 2005 after practicing with the Tax Exempt Organizations group at the law firm of Preston, Gates & Ellis LLP in Seattle, Washington. Beverly served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz of the New Jersey Supreme Court after graduating from Yale Law School in 2002. While at Yale, Beverly was a student director of the Advocacy for Parents and Children Clinic and executive producer of the Court Jesters, the law school's own theatre troupe. Beverly graduated with honors from Smith College in 1997 with a major in government.