Olivia Lofton-Stanley earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School where she was an executive technical editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
While in law school, she served as chair of the Mississippi Delta Project at Harvard Law School and as a co-chair of the Harvard Women's Law Association's Outreach Committee. She was also a legal intern in the Civil Division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.