Aine Pierre

Aine Pierre (she/they) hails from Cherry Hill, NJ. In May 2020, she graduated magna cum laude from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in History with Departmental Honors. At Wake Forest, she earned the Richard Worden Griffin Research Prize in Asian, African, or Latin American History for her honors thesis, “‘Mischievous Dealings:’ Orientalist Imagination and the Making of the British Poor Law of 1834.” She also served as online managing editor of the campus newspaper and editor of the campus literary magazine.

It was in college that Aine fell in love with direct legal services, specifically indigent public defense. She spent her first summer in college working at the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where she performed research for a study on racial bias in St. Louis County, MO’s death-penalty decision-making scheme. Two years later, she worked as a social work and alternative sentencing intern at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, helping connect clients and their families with vital addiction support, educational, employment, and housing services. Back at Wake Forest, she interned with the Forsyth County, NC, Community Bail Fund and worked on a research project about the surveillance of families in the criminal justice system, where she observed public defenders at work on a weekly basis.

At Georgetown Law, Aine is a member of Georgetown Defenders, OutLaw, the Disabled Law Students Association (DLSA), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), and the Abolition Advocacy Project. She is looking forward to more opportunities to provide direct legal services to those who need it most.

Outside of the law, Aine enjoys writing poetry, trying out new recipes, and nerding out over public transportation.