Ariel Werner is a trial attorney in the Manhattan office of Federal Defenders of New York. Prior to joining the Federal Defenders in 2019, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edgardo Ramos of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and as a trial attorney with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Charles County. She is a graduate of Brown University and New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar.