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Degna P. Levister, Instructor, Supervising Attorney, co teaches in the Elder Law Clinic and in the Economic Justice Project. She graduated from Brooklyn Law School, where she was awarded the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship, after receiving a B.A. from SUNY at Stony Brook. Before joining the faculty at the Law School, she ran the Urban Justice Center's Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project, which provides direct civil legal representation to the poor via soup kitchen/food pantry outreach clinics. For seven years prior, she worked in a variety of positions at the Legal Aid Society including in the Brooklyn Office For The Aging, the Criminal Appeals Bureau, and the Civil Division. Professor Levister previously taught First Year Lawyering Seminar, Health Law Concentration, in the Irene Diamond Professor Skills Center and in the Pipeline to Justice Program. In addition to her legal career, Professor Levister is a Registered Professional Nurse with experience in labor and delivery, pre and post-operative surgery, research, and psychiatric care.