Introducing the Incoming President Alice Fontier is the incoming President of NYSACDL, she will be the first Black woman to hold the position. An NYU Law graduate, Alice was born and raised in upstate New York and has lived in Harlem for 15 years. She is looking forward to using her experiences and years of work as a public defender to focus the work of NYSACDL in the coming year on enacting policy that reckons with racism in our legal system and curbs police misconduct. Alice also serves as the Managing Director of NDS Harlem, a holistic public defense office providing criminal, civil, and family defense. She has previously worked as the Managing Director of the Criminal Defense Practice at the Bronx Defenders, a Supervising Attorney at NDS Harlem, an attorney at the Federal Defenders of San Diego, and a private attorney in both the federal and state courts of New York. She has handled several high-profile national security cases.
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Atticus | Volume 33 Number 1 | Winter 2021 | New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
