Michael Bochkur Dratver
Postbaccalaureate Fellow • michael.bochkurdratver@yale.edu
Michael Bochkur Dratver is a Postbaccalaureate Fellow at the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School.
Michael graduated cum laude from Yale College in 2023, receiving a B.S. in Cognitive Science and Economics. Michael has held various roles in the area of criminal legal reform, including working to exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals as part of Loyola’s Project for the Innocent and law clerking for Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office’s Restorative Justice Division. Michael has also had research experience in a radiation oncology laboratory at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, where he earned a co-authorship on a publication in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology. Outside of research, Michael enjoys cooking, playing chess, and spending time with friends and family.