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Team Leader & Attorney, Family Defense Practice, The Bronx Defenders
Fallon Speaker is a feminist, reproductive justice transformer, and social justice leader. She is also a staff attorney and team leader in the Family Defense Practice at The Bronx Defenders, where she represents parents in child protective proceedings who have been accused of abuse...
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Staff Attorney, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem
Candace Mitchell is a current public defender at Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar for Public Service, and she also has a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy...
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Supervising Attorney, Criminal Defense Practice, The Bronx Defenders
Courtney is a supervising attorney in the Criminal Defense Practice at The Bronx Defenders. In that role she directly supervises and trains attorneys new to the public defense world. Courtney began her career working as a staff attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services. After leaving...
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Staff Attorney, Still She Rises
Christine Umeh is a staff attorney at Still She Rises, where she defends North Tulsa mothers in criminal matters and child welfare proceedings. Christine received her J.D. from Duke University School of Law.
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Director of Hiring, Diversity & Community Engagement, The Bronx Defenders
Shannon oversees hiring at The Bronx Defenders; organizes and facilitates the race, class, power, privilege, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; and supervises the Bronx Defenders Holistic Externship at Columbia Law. Shannon started as a staff attorney in the Criminal Defense...
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