Allemai Dagnatchew is a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center and a 2022 graduate of Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. She has a longstanding passion for racial and gender justice and is excited to join the Center and their work at the intersection of these issues. She is also a member of the
Liza Muschette is an accomplished administrative leader with over 25 years of professional experience. She began her career in post-secondary education over two decades ago. With a proven history in leadership and team management, Liza possesses exceptional organizational and time management skills. Her communication prowess, coupled with her problem-solving and decision-making abilities, makes her an
Tiffany Okeani is a UC Berkeley alumna and JD/MPH student at Georgetown University Law Center and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health committed to providing a voice for those in the margins and co-creating safe spaces with and for Black girls and women. While in her dual degree program, she has contributed to research
Professor Avalos is Senior Scholar in the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown University Law Center. She is Professor of Law and holds the Hermann Moyse, Sr. Professorship at Louisiana State University Law Center. During the 2024-2025 academic year, she is a Fulbright Scholar at Queen Mary University London and is also a
Rebecca Epstein is the Executive Director of the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law. Under Rebecca’s leadership since 2012, the Center has driven policy changes in courts and schools and influenced national discussions on critical issues, such as the criminalization of girls and the biases faced by Black girls. Among other publications,
Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and poverty law and is Faculty Director of the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity. On the faculty since 1982, he has also served in all three branches of government. During President Clinton’s first
Shabnam Javdani is a Senior Scholar at the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law. Professor Javdani is an Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University, a founding Director of the RISE Research Team, and the Faculty Director of the NYU Prison Education Program. Javdani also works as a clinical and
Professor Thalia González is a Senior Scholar in the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown University Law Center where she leads the Center’s national research on restorative justice law, policy, and practice. She is a Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of Law and holds a Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair.
Dr. Quinn is a Senior Scholar at the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law. She is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. Dr. Camille R. Quinn is a health criminologist in the fields of Black girls and young women’s health and mental health equity and the development
Kaitlyn Powell is a recent graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the Institut d’études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) where she received her Juris Doctor and Master’s in Law respectively. While in law school, she was a Public Interest Fellow, Human Rights Associate, and member of the Women’s Legal Alliance, the Georgetown Law Socialist