Since 2002, she has been on staff at the Innocence Project in New York, representing prisoners from around the nation who are seeking post-conviction DNA testing to prove their innocence. During that time, she has represented over a dozen prisoners who have been exonerated by DNA evidence and freed from the nation's prisons or death rows and has worked on several United States Supreme Court cases involving criminal justice and constitutional issues. Prior to joining the Innocence Project, Nina was a civil rights attorney in private practice, handling a broad range of free speech, employment discrimination, and police misconduct cases. Nina is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar, and Yale University.