Bio
I'm a Professor of Law (with tenure) and Director of the Civil Justice Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. I was previously the Associate Dean for Experiential Education and Professor of Law (with tenure) at the American University Washington College of Law, where I directed the Civil Advocacy Clinic and tought Critical Race Theory and Labor & Employment. My eight years of private practice experience and more than a decade of clinical and doctrinal legal teaching experience inform my research, academic instruction, and diversity/equity/inclusion consulting and training programs. I am skilled in providing content to large groups and in facilitating large and small group discussions.
Projects and Expertise
I bring intellectual rigor, energy and enthusiasm to every aspect of my work.
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Clinical Legal Education
Research and Scholarship: Worker Exploitation
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training
Practice + Theory + Reflection
I direct an economic justice clinic in which students represent clients in wage and hour, unemployment benefits, consumer, and other civil matters in Washington D.C. and Maryland. My course includes a lawyering seminar on the theoretical and practical elements of interviewing, counseling, fact investigation, narrative, case theory, and negotiations.
Procedure + Justice + Narrative
My scholarship explores worker exploitation, its intersection with race, and barriers to low-wage workers' ability to pursue substantive legal claims. My analysis draws from critical race theory, with a focus on both theory and praxis, and centers low-wage workers of color.
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My most recent article, Outsourcing Discrimination, published in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, explores racial discrimination against Black temporary workers, the problematic narratives that drive this bias, and the challenges to addressing it.
Expertise + Communication + Transformation
I provide diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting to AM100 law firms. I both collaborate with diversity professionals in their development of content for firm programs and provide independent trainings that satisfy states’ diversity CLE credits. I have experience presenting programs to both large (100 person) and small (15 person) groups.
Beyond Diversity: Critical Cultural Competencies for Lawyers (1-1.5 hours)
Identifying and Overcoming Unconscious Bias in the Workplace (1.0 hour)
Diversity and Implicit Bias Dialogues (1.5 hours)
My Experience
Background & Expertise
July 2023-present
Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Justice Clinic
Direct Civil Justice Clinic focusing on workers' rights advocacy and litigation.
2021-2023
Associate Dean for Experiential Education, American University Washington College of Law
Oversee nationally ranked clinical, externship, and advocacy programs and directly supervise program staff.
2010-2023
Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
Direct Civil Advocacy Clinic and teach Critical Race Theory, Labor & Employment, and Advanced Civil Procedure.
2018-present
Professional Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant
Provide programmatic diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting to AM100 law firms. Collaborates with diversity programs in their development of content for programs and provides independent trainings that satisfy various states’ diversity CLE credits.
2004-2010
Associate, Cohen, Millstein, Sellers & Toll, PLLC
Managed and participated in all aspects of case development and litigation in class action civil rights and wage and hour cases in more than 20 federal courts.
2003-2004
Law Clerk, The Honorable Alexander Williams, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the District of Maryland
Prepared draft opinions and pre-hearing memoranda for and attended motions hearings, oral arguments, pre-trial conferences, jury trials, settlement conferences and sentencings.
2002-2003
Associate, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering
Prepared research memoranda and drafted briefs in complex litigation and regulatory matters. Completed legal research and memoranda on constitutional issues for civil rights cases.
Education
J.D. Columbia Law School
Henry Fiske Stone Scholar, Paul Robeson Endowed Scholar, Columbia Human Rights Law Review - Articles Editor
A.B. Dartmouth College
cum laude, Government with Honors, Thesis - The Challenge of Democratic Consolidation: The Rule of Law in Nicaragua and Uganda
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
Albert Einstein
