About

Alexis Jori Shanes where she studies international rights, humanitarian law, and transitional justice. Her current research focuses on reparations for child victims of human rights atrocities. She is also a part-time White House reporter at Bloomberg, an executive articles editor at the Georgetown Law Journal, and the president of the Georgetown International Law Society. During her time at Georgetown, Alexis has conducted human rights fieldwork in Erbil, observed pretrial hearings at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, and studied at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. She has completed more than 100 hours of pro bono work and will graduate Georgetown with certificates in humanitarian emergencies and transnational law.

Formerly a full-time reporter, Alexis covered employment discrimination as a journalist at Law360, writing about litigation in federal trial and appellate courts. Her work documented federal trial and appellate litigation ranging from single-plaintiff cases to class actions affecting thousands of vulnerable workers. She covered disability and pregnancy discrimination cases arising from COVID-19 restrictions, analyzed the ongoing implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County and wrote about the Biden administration’s changes to anti-bias workplace regulations, among other issues. She also covered New Jersey higher education, health care, environment, and politics for The Record and NorthJersey.com, part of the USA Today Network.

Alexis is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications (2019) and Oklahoma State University (2017). In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing piano and training for marathons. Her greatest joy is Miles, a Pembroke Welsh corgi named after the character in "Murphy Brown."