An attorney in our office for twelve years, Anita served as a trial attorney in the Misdemeanor and Felony Units and worked in The Freedom Project fighting for post-conviction relief for clients in California prisons. Anita represented Kenneth Humphrey in In re Humphreyin which the California Supreme Court mandated that judges consider a person’s ability to pay when setting bail amounts and that pre-trial detention only be used when no other less restrictive option is available, reforming California’s bail system and leading to hundreds of pre-trial detainees being released.
Before law school, Anita was a social worker and served as Clinical Director at the Red Hook Community Justice Center, one of the first community courts in the nation, focusing on providing programming and support to address root causes of incarceration. Anita graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, and obtained a Masters in Social Work at Columbia University. She received a JD from Brooklyn Law School, where she served as Editor in Chief of the Brooklyn Law Review and worked in the Capital Defender and Federal Habeas Clinic, and completed a federal clerkship for the late Honorable Jack B. Weinstein in the Eastern District of New York.
Anita is an avid baker and aspiring hiker, and mother of two kids.