Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. She focuses on reforming systemic unconstitutional practices in juvenile justice, including by juvenile courts and police departments. She also leads the Division’s efforts to increase the right to counsel to indigent defendants. Prior to her current work, she was an appellate attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and worked with the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, where she conducted international white-collar criminal and securities fraud investigations. She was born in Jamaica and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Rutgers College.