Jeff Preptit, joined the ACLU-TN in 2022 after close to 3 years of work at the Public Defender’s Office in Nashville, Tennessee.
Before going to law school, Jeff worked with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism as an open-source intelligence analyst. During his first year of law school, Jeff co-founded the Charlotte Community Coalition and the Heal Charlotte Initiative in the wake of the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott. Jeff has a fierce dedication to serving and working to improve his community, and he brings a long history of service and lived experience to the work of ACLU-TN.