EDUCATION

New York University School of Law
Juris Doctor, May 2007
Honors: Dean’s Scholarship; The Review of Law and Social Change, Articles Editor
Activities: Teaching Assistant, Prof. Derrick Bell, Constitutional Law; International Human Rights Clinic; Exchange Student, Sydney Law School (New South Wales, Australia); Black Allied Law Students Association

The University of Chicago
Doctoral Program (ABD)
Master of Arts in English Literature, June 2002
Honors: Special Trustees Fellow; Mellon Dissertation Grant Recipient

New York University
Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature, May 2000
Honors: Baird Scholarship Recipient; Robert Holmes Award for Independent International Research

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Sheller Center for Social Justice, July 2019 – Present
Director of the Systemic Justice Project, a legal clinic focusing on conditions of incarceration and the collateral consequences of the criminal legal system. Supervise student teams engaged in policy analysis, legislative reform, community education, and other advocacy on behalf of currently incarcerated individuals and returning citizens. Teach a seminar on topics including the justifications for incarceration; critical legal approaches to criminal law; explorations of the collateral consequences of the criminal legal system; and considerations of various “lawyerly interventions” into the criminal legal system and its civil consequences.

New York University School of Law, New York, New York
Associate Director of Lawyering, June 2018 – May 2019
Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, June 2016 – May 2018
Full-time appointment teaching an experiential learning course on legal writing, reasoning, practice, and ethics to first- and second-year students. Lead curricular redesign of capstone module on oral argumentation.

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The University of Chicago
Department of English Language and Literature, August 2000 – May 2005
Taught: Short Story; Shakespeare 1: Histories & Comedies; Culture & African American Thought
Assisted: Introduction to Fiction (W. Veeder); Jim Crow and the Rise of the American Protest Novel (K. Warren)

JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP

Hon. Eric L. Clay, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Judicial Clerk, September 2010 – September 2011

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Appellate Advocates, New York, New York
Appellate Counsel, August 2013 – June 2016
Provided appellate representation to indigent criminal defendants, including investigating the record on appeal, identifying viable issues, drafting appellate motions and briefs, and arguing in the Appellate Division, Court of Appeals, and other appropriate courts.

Littler Mendelson, P.C., Chicago, Illinois
Associate, December 2011 – June 2013
Represented clients in single-plaintiff discrimination cases, employment-related civil suits, and nationwide class action wage & hour claims.

New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), New York, New York
Staff Attorney, Foreclosure Prevention Project, January 2010 – September 2010
Represented homeowners in subprime and non-conventional mortgage foreclosure matters. Taught Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses on foreclosure law and practice.

Allen and Overy LLP, London, United Kingdom
Associate, U.S. Practice Group, October 2007 – May 2009
(Secondee, Goldman Sachs Legal Department, August – November 2008)
Summer Associate, Summer 2006
Drafted offering documents and agreements for securitization programs, commercial paper and medium-term note programs, and bond issuances, including prospectuses, indentures, underwriting documents, purchase agreements, trust agreements, and swap agreements.

Redfern Legal Centre, Sydney, Australia
Legal Volunteer, Spring 2006
Crafted a political, legal, and social strategy to confront the government's plan to seize deeded indigenous land in order to expand the city's central business district. Created a policy document that was used across organizations working to raise awareness and to challenge the plan.

LEGAL PUBLICATIONS AND SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

The Public Plea (work-in-progress)

Sufficiently Adversarial: Navigating the Line Between Recognition and Solution (work-in-progress)

Reassessing the Centrality of Risk in the Criminal Legal System (work-in-progress)
Presented at:   CrimFest, July 2019

The Unchosen: Procedural Fairness in Specialized Criminal Court Selection (forthcoming in __ Cardozo L.R.)
Presented at:   New York University Lawyering Scholarship Colloquium, November 2017
Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop, July 2018

Co-Presenter, “Problematizing Problem-Solving Courts,” Selected for 2020 Law and Society Annual Meeting, May 2020.

Panelist, Introduction to Mass Incarceration, Temple University chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, October 2019.

Lecturer, “How to Read Good,” Opening J.D. Orientation Lecture, New York University School of Law, August 2018.

Co-presenter, “Rules of Engagement: How to Teach Civility and Navigate Difficult Conversations with Purpose and Professionalism,” Association of American Law Schools’ 41st Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Education, April 2018.

Moderator, Black Allied Law Student Association and the Latino Students Association Public Interest Career Panel, New York University School of Law, November 2017.

Moderator, Women of Color Collective Private Sector Litigation Panel, New York University School of Law, November 2017.

Lecturer, “Anatomy of a Case,” Opening J.D. Orientation Lecture, New York University School of Law, August 2017.

AWARDS

Podell Distinguished Teaching Award, New York University School of Law, 2019.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA)
Board Member, Elected December 2020
Best Practices and New Clinicians committees

Pennsylvania Innocence Project
Board Member, November 2020 – Present

NYU Law Alumni of Color Association, New York, NY
Second Vice President, October 2016 – Present
Recording Secretary, 2013 – 2016

Bar Admissions: New York (2008), Illinois (2012 - inactive), Pennsylvania (2021).