Daniela del Rosario Wertheimer

Daniela del Rosario Wertheimer is the Cornell First Amendment Clinic's Stanton Fellow. She is a member of the D.C. Bar and has research interests and practice experience in the First and Fourth Amendments, government transparency, and civil liberties and civil rights. Prior to joining Cornell, Daniela was the Jack Nelson-Dow Jones Fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. In that role, she focused primarily on federal and state open records and open meetings matters through litigation, advocacy, and amicus efforts. Daniela graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she was awarded the Kraw Law Group Scholarship for her work on labor and employment issues and academic achievement. She was also an articles editor at the California Law Review, a research assistant, and a student in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. Before law school, Daniela worked at the ACLU, where she fostered her nascent interest in First Amendment issues. Daniela was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow at Swarthmore College, from which she graduated in 2017 with a degree in sociology and anthropology.