Professor. Lawyer. Advocate. Advisor.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN

Visiting Associate Professor of Law, May 2023 - July 2023

Associate Professor of Law, August 2023 – Present

Courses:           Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, Theories of Collective Liberation

 

Committees:     Education Policy Committee (2023 – Present); Core Strategic Planning Committee, Subcommittee on Mass Incarceration (2023 – 2024); Advisor, BLSA (2023-Present)

 

Service:            Vice Chair, ABA Criminal Justice Section, Academics Committee (2021-Present); Chair, Lutie Lytle, Supplemental Documents Committee (2022 – Present)

 

University of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford, MS

Assistant Professor of Law, July 1, 2020 – May 2023

 

Awards:            Ben Hardy Faculty Excellence Award for Outstanding Teaching, Scholarship, and Service (2022), Inaugural Faculty Diversity Award (2022), University of Mississippi Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies Fellowship (for the project The Legal Consequences of Conflating and Appropriating Slavery Abolition) (2021-2023)

 

Committees:     Speakers and Faculty Scholarship (2020-2023), Faculty Appointments (2021-2023), Dean Search Committee (2022), Public Interest Law Fellows Grant Selection (2021, 2022), Diversity (2020-2021)

 

Service:            Vice Chair, ABA Criminal Justice Section, Academics Committee (2021-Present); Chair, Lutie Lytle, Supplemental Documents Committee (2022 – Present)

 

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Constitutional Law, Criminalization of Survival, Theories of Collective Liberation (including Race and Gender Theory), Work Law

 

 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Liberatory Lawyering Symposium. February 20, 2025. Indiana University Maurer School of Law. (Organizer)

 

Symposium on Expertise. Panel: Family, Gender, Law. November 15, 2024. Boston University School of Law. (Invited panelist.)

 

Work Law Junior Scholars Workshop. November 8-9, 2024. Cornell Law School. Is Economic Liberty for Everyone?(Competitive selection process). 

 

Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture: The Future of Constitutional Interpretation. October 25, 2024. Saint Louis University Law School. (Invited)

 

Intersections with Reproductive Justice. October 21, 2024. If/When/How Student Chapter. Indiana University, Maurer School of Law. (Invited)

 

Critical Perspectives Salon III: Critical Race Theory. October 4, 2024. Boston College Law School. (Invited speaker)

 

Webinar: How to become a Law Professor. April 4, 2024. Association of American Law Schools. (Invited Panelist)

 

Fifth Annual Boston College Junior Faculty Roundtable. March 15, 2024. Boston College Law School. Is Economic Liberty for Everyone?

 

Lutie/Langston Midwestern Writing Workshop. Dec. 1, 2023. University of Chicago. The Constitutional Underpinnings of Survival Labor.

 

ABA Criminal Justice Section, Academics Committee Annual Roundtable, Nov. 17, 2023. Virtual. The Constitutional Underpinnings of Survival Labor.

 

Equality Law Scholars’ Forum, Nov. 10, 2023. Boston University Law School. (Invited)

 

What is Critical Race Theory? October 22, 2023. Bloomington Chapter of the NAACP (invited)

 

6th Annual Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference, October 6, 2023. The Constitutional Underpinnings of Survival Labor.

 

AALS Jurisprudence Junior Scholars Workshop, August 5, 2023. In Pursuit of Collective Liberation in Feminist Constitutionalism.

 

9th Annual Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, July 26-29, 2023. Knowledge, Narrative,

and Liberatory Interventions to Embedded Carceral Stories.

 

Decarceration Law Professors, Works-in-Progress Workshop, July 6, 2023. 

 

Mississippi State University, Department of Gender Studies Women’s History Month Series, March 31, 2023. Demonizing Our Sisters through the ‘Pimp Lobby:’ Rethinking the Law and Sex Work. (Invited)

 

Innocent Behind Bars: A Symposium on Overcriminalization, ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, the Academy for Justice, and the Law Journal for Social Justice, February 24, 2023. Roundtable Discussion 1- The Criminal Legal System and Justice:  For Survivors of Violence and Survivors of a Violent Prison System. (Invited)

 

Marquette University Law School, Junior Faculty Works-in-Progress Workshop, Sept. 8-10, 2022. Survival Labor. (Invited)

 

National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys, July 8, 2022. Understanding Critical Race Theory, CLE Session at Berkeley School of Law. (Invited)

 

Lutie Lytle Summer Workshop and Writing Retreat, June 23, 2022. The Legal Consequences of Conflating and Appropriating Slavery Abolition, Incubator Presentation.

 

Lutie Lytle Summer Workshop and Writing Retreat, June 23, 2022. Creating and Executing Your Tenure/Promotion Plan.(Moderator)

 

United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, May 23, 2022. An Introduction to Critical Race Theory. (Invited)

 

James Madison University, Democracy in Peril Speaker Series, April 26, 2022. Understanding Critical Race Theory: Does the Current Climate Prove the Point? (Invited)

 

Saint Louis University School of Law Faculty Workshop, April 6, 2022. (Invited)

 

Texas A&M University School of Law, SEC Exchange Series, March 30, 2022 (Invited)

 

AALS 2022 Annual Meeting, New Voices in Criminal Justice, January 8, 2022. Presented WIP on “Survival Labor” (working title for Protecting the Hustle/Navigating the Harm WIPS). 

 

Third Annual Equity Scholars’ Forum, Boston University School of Law, November 2021. Selected to workshop my work in progress, Survival Labor.

 

Constitutional Law Colloquium, Loyola Chicago, November 7, 2020. Accepted to present on my work in progress, Protecting the Hustle: Exploring Constitutional Protections Afforded to Survival.

 

16th Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy: The Changing Nature of Work and the Economics of Employment in the 21st Century. George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. November 2019.

 

The Effect of SESTA/FOSTA. February 2019.

Invited to speak at a hill briefing hosted by the LGBT Caucus on the effect on sex workers and survivors of trafficking after SESTA/FOSTA was signed into law.

 

Fair Budget Coalition Constituent Education. January 13, 2018.

Engaged with DC Community members about the coalition’s community safety issue group priorities. We sought feedback from people who would be personally impacted and/or live in the district, to inform selection of policy priorities.

 

Virginia Rights and Remedies for Survivors Training. Ayuda. June 27, 2018.

Trained Ayuda’s Fairfax, Virginia attorneys and advocates on expungement, vacatur, pardons, civil protection orders, and name changes in Virginia for victims of sex trafficking.

 

FOSTA/SESTA Overview. DC National Lawyers’ Guild. June 28, 2018.

Provided an overview of recently passed legislation impacting individuals engaged in commercial sex and the consequences of the legislation (pro and con). 

 

Sex Worker and Advocate Surveillance Panel. American University. September 8, 2018.

Invited to speak on a panel regarding issues of advocate surveillance by the government and how expanded surveillance affects sex worker advocacy.

 

NOVAHTI Social Worker Training. November 1, 2018.

Invited to design a training for social workers working with survivors of trafficking to highlight the differences in professional responsibility between attorneys and social workers and the many ways that social workers can help guide and support clients through the legal process.

 

D.C. Judicial Bar Conference.  April 7, 2017.

Selected to participate on a panel at the DC Judicial Bar Conference during a session with approximately 20 participants on identifying survivors of trafficking and advocating or deciding cases in a trauma-informed way.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC

Juris Doctor, May 2014

  • Member, Moot Court Board
  • First Place and Best Brief Award, American Bar Association, First Amendment and Media Law Moot Court, Spring 2014
  • American Bar Association, Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in Health Law, Spring 2014
  • Participant, Van Vleck Constitutional Law Moot Court, Fall 2013
  • Business Ethics Teaching Assistant for Professor Keith Diener in The George Washington University School of Business (August 2012 – February 2013)

 

University of Minnesota, Morris, Morris, MN

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, May 2011

  • Recipient of Ted Uehling Donor Funded Scholarship in Philosophy
  • Senior Thesis “The Morality of Sex Robots”

 

PRACTICE EXPERIENCE

 

Center for Survivor Agency and Justice, Washington, DC

Director of Capacity Building and Systems Change (January 2019 – June 2020)

  • Led the development of CSAJ’s systems change work by creating new projects related to commercial sexual exchange and strategies to address broader issues of economic security for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
  • Collaborated nationally with issue area experts in Consumer Rights Law, Domestic Violence Law, Family Law, Civil Rights, and more to create webinars, fact sheets, training materials, amicus briefs, and other materials for use by attorneys and advocates in the field.
  • Managed a budget as the lead on a brand-new project designed to develop the skills of legal advocates to address the economic costs of domestic and sexual violence.

 

Amara Legal Center, Washington, DC

Director of Policy and Strategic Partnerships (July 2017 – January 2019)

Staff Attorney (May 2016 – July 2017)

Volunteer (January 2014 – May 2016)

  • Established and led Amara’s policy department by developing policy priorities, presenting oral and written testimony in support of or in opposition to legislation; authored blog posts providing public facing information to better understand the organization’s work and changes in the legal landscape; formed and participated in coalitions with non-profit and government entities to achieve legislative and policy change in the areas of civil rights, criminal justice reform, and victim services that benefitted communities with intersecting marginalized identities.
  • Provided direct legal representation to sex workers and survivors of human trafficking by independently litigating cases in federal and state court from intake to resolution. Staffed “office hours” at relevant social services organizations to strengthen relationships with those organizations, as well as provide legal advice to their clients.
  • As the organization grew, created and managed the intern program, including writing job descriptions, marketing the descriptions, building relationships with nearby schools, onboarding, and supervising work.

 

U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, Rapid City, SD

Law Clerk to United States Magistrate Judge Wollmann (June 2015 – May 2016)

  • Sole staff member to newly appointed magistrate judge in an area with a large Native American community to further her mission of ensuring equitable treatment of all who appeared in her courtroom.
  • Conducted legal research, drafted and edited orders, reports and recommendations, and internal memoranda on a variety of issues, including unreasonable searches and seizures, excessive force, and employment discrimination.
  • Served as the primary point of contact for the judge's chambers, representing her chambers with professionalism and integrity in regular interactions with attorneys, litigants, other judges, and court personnel

 

Victor M. Glasberg & Associates, Alexandria, VA

Post-Graduate Fellow (August 2014 – May 2015)

  • Conducted legal research to develop civil rights cases and drafted pleadings, memoranda, briefs, correspondence, and other documents on a variety of issues including unlawful search and seizure, false arrest, and malicious prosecution.
  • Interacted with clients and witnesses by conducting interviews, participating in depositions, and explaining matters to clients.
  • Participated in meetings with members of the firm, discussed case strategy, and helped prepare for hearings, trial, and appellate argument.

 

BAR ADMISSIONS

 

2015, District of Columbia Bar 

2014, Virginia State Bar (inactive)

2015, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia