NATIONAL CRIMINAL DEFENSE COLLEGE ALUMNI

Juliana DeVries is a criminal defense and appellate attorney licensed in DC and California. She previously served as an Appellate Assistant Federal Public Defender in San Francisco and taught at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law. She clerked for Justice Leondra Kruger on the California Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Aubrey joined School Justice Project after over twelve years as a public defender advocating for our most marginalized community members facing accusations ranging from traffic violations to homicide charges. He is a proud alum of Queens Defenders (formerly known as Queens Law Associates), the Maryland Office of the Public Defender and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he served as a Supervising Attorney. He has developed and implemented trainings in person, virtually, in one one-on-one settings, in large groups, small groups and even once internationally. He has handled dozens of jury trials, hundreds of bench trials, and has represented thousands of individual clients. He holds a B.A. summa cum laude in Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science from the City University of New York-Hunter College and a J.D. from Berkeley Law School. Prior to law school, Aubrey worked in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement. Aubrey is an attorney admitted to practice in DC, Maryland, and New York and speaks Spanish.