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160. Just because she is a progressive and allies with Cortez, doesn't mean she has not

benefited from her elite family and education. I highly doubt she rocked the boat much growing up. She learned and benefited, and then entered the arena as a progressive.



Zephyr Rain Teachout is an American attorney, author, and Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University.

Teachout was born in Seattle, Washington, the second of five children, to Peter Teachout, a constitutional law professor at Vermont Law School, and Mary Miles Teachout, who serves as a trial level judge in Vermont. Her father served in the United States Army as a lieutenant during the Vietnam War and has a law degree from Harvard Law School.[9] At the time of her birth, the family was living in Seattle, where her father was a professor at the University of Washington.

Raised on a farm outside Norwich, Vermont, Teachout attended Hanover High School in Hanover, New Hampshire, where she was a champion cross-country runner and did some acting.

In 1993, Teachout received a B.A. degree from Yale University, where she also did some acting. In 1999, she earned two simultaneous degrees from Duke University: a J.D. degree, summa cum laude, and an M.A. degree in political science. She was also Editor-in-Chief of the Duke Law Journal.