Profile:
Erin received a B.A. from Brown with honors, focusing on The Americas – Race, Class, and Cultural Identity. She then investigated allegations of police misconduct with the Civilian Complaint Review Board in New York City. She earned a J.D. with honors from NYU as a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar and an Ann Petluck Poses Memorial Prize recipient for her work in the Comparative Criminal Justice Clinic representing a woman charged with homicide for killing her abusive boyfriend in self-defense. Erin served as a courtroom advocate for women seeking restraining orders, interned with a domestic violence prosecution office, and prepared an asylum application based on the state’s failure to protect the applicant from recurring family violence. Upon graduating, Erin clerked for a judge in the Southern District of New York, and then worked with the U.S. Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors Program.
Erin served as a teaching fellow with Georgetown Law’s Domestic Violence Clinic, which provides intensive training and supervision to students representing victims of family abuse in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. During her fellowship, Erin supervised students representing clients who are seeking legal relief from the DC Superior Court such as emergency temporary protection orders and year-long civil protection orders. She assisted the students in all areas of case preparation for domestic violence litigation, such as supervising students during intake, helping them decide which cases to undertake, attending court appearances with the students and helping to negotiate a favorable outcome for the clients. Erin also taught in the seminar portion of clinic, instructing students as to how to file necessary paperwork, create a case strategy, and work with their clients throughout the litigation process. Moreover, Erin handled her own caseload representing survivors in negotiations and in court, and also represented the clinic at monthly meetings of domestic violence advocates in Washington, DC. In addition to her supervisory, teaching and client responsibilities, Erin audited a seminar at Georgetown Law on International Trafficking in Persons and has participated in the clinical pedagogy seminars provided for all of the teaching fellows at the Law Center.
Erin is spearheading litigation as a Trial Attorney with the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. |
