Senior Policy Attorney · Public Affairs · Criminal Justice · Presidential Power & Federal Grants
I’m an attorney with 15 years of experience spanning research and writing on major public policy issues, appellate litigation, and complex investigations. Currently, I’m senior counsel in the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
Canceled disaster grants, deep staff cuts, and politicized disaster declarations have weakened the nation’s emergency response. They override choices Congress made and leave states and communities to cover rising disaster costs on their own.
Brennan Center
A federal judge in Boston threw out the Trump administration’s challenge to the city’s sanctuary policies. The piece explains why former law enforcement leaders say those policies make communities safer. It draws on an amicus brief campaign I coordinated in the Boston and New York City cases.
Brennan Center
Arbitrary cuts to federal science funding vastly expand presidential power at the expense of Congress, threatening the rule of law, our economy, and the future of scientific research.
Brennan Center
How New York built a winning coalition to pass automatic record-sealing legislation — and what other states can learn from it.
Brennan Center
A guide to the centuries-old legal tool protecting against unlawful detention, and how it’s being tested by the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Brennan Center
Attacking Donald Trump’s prosecutor Alvin Bragg — rather than probing crime — is the goal of congressional Republicans’ sudden interest in Manhattan.
New York Daily News
Even minor criminal records can sharply reduce someone’s earning potential — a hidden driver of inequality with costs in the hundreds of billions nationwide.
Brennan Center
The Atlantic Festival 2022 · “Following the Data: Understanding the Factors Driving Recent Crime Trends”