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Nicole Smith Futrell, Instructor, teaches and is a Supervising Attorney in the Criminal Defense Clinic.

She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University. She has served as an Institute for International Public Policy Fellow, traveling abroad to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to study the country's post-apartheid criminal justice system.

Prior to joining the faculty, she was a public defender at the Bronx Defenders, a community based organization with an interdisciplinary approach to criminal defense advocacy. While there, she litigated misdemeanor and felony cases and conducted a number of criminal rights trainings for local community groups. She has worked as an advisor in the Center for Public Interest Law at Columbia University Law School and currently serves on the Criminal Courts Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.