Alexandra Smolyar

Litigation Fellow

Alex Smolyar is a 2024 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law. Alex joins Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta as a Litigation Fellow in the Impact Litigation Department, where she focuses on protecting voting rights and advocating for immigrant justice.  

As a child of Ukrainian immigrants born and raised in Georgia, Alex has a longstanding passion for social justice and unwavering commitment to amplifying the voices of marginalized communities in the South and beyond. While in law school, Alex pursued her passion for civil rights and social justice by interning at the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project, and by serving as a Student Attorney at UGA Law's Community HeLP Clinic, where she advocated for clients in their immigration matters, among other experiences.