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PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a motivated senior attorney with experience developing and litigating First Amendment and related free expression cases to serve as Legal Director. The Legal Director will play a leading role in developing PEN America’s legal advocacy program, working in collaboration with program team leaders to create and implement strategic goals. They will direct and oversee PEN America’s use of litigation as an important advocacy tool, particularly where the organization has a unique value-add and can have impact. They will direct the litigation docket, while also advising and counseling the organization on the laws and policies relevant to its broader free expression work. The Legal Director will supervise a small staff, currently consisting of one staff attorney, with the potential to add a legal fellow. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters and...

About Resetting the Table Resetting the Table (RTT) equips leaders and communities from every corner of American life to counter toxic polarization and build a shared society and democracy. Through rigorous training, courageous dialogue, and empathy-generating media content, we enable Americans to transform differences into an engine of strengthened relationship, trust, and problem-solving in our country and communities. RTT’s trainings and forums have directly reached more than 90,000 participants across the U.S., many of them influential faith leaders, TV writers, higher education administrators, and other norm-shapers positioned to make far-reaching culture change and indirectly impact millions more. Informed by combined expertise in the fields of mediation, conflict transformation, trauma therapy, and social research, our methodology for building “healthy conflict” in communities is nationally recognized and highly sought after . It is an amazing time to...