San Francisco Public Defender’s Office
San Francisco, CA
Chris will be joining the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office as a Volunteer Attorney assigned to the Misdemeanor Unit. In that role, Chris will represent indigent clients charged with misdemeanors in San Francisco from arraignment through trial.
At Harvard Law School, Chris served as a student attorney for Harvard Defenders and the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project, where he advocated for indigent and incarcerated clients in criminal show‐cause hearings, record‐sealing proceedings, prison disciplinary proceedings, and probation hearings. In the Criminal Justice Institute, Chris represented clients charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses in Boston municipal courts. As a clinical student with the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, Chris also worked with organizers in Letcher County, Kentucky to halt construction of a new federal prison. He spent his summers interning for the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center and Brooklyn Defender Services. Additionally, during the academic year, Chris was an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights‐Civil Liberties Law Review and a research assistant for Professor Daniel Medwed.
Prior to law school, Chris spent three years at the Innocence Project as a paralegal in the post‐conviction litigation department.
He graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in Political Science.