Carmen Brooks is a trial attorney working in the Federal Death Penalty Unit at the District of Nevada Federal Defender Office. Carmen earned her BA and MA at Washington University in St. Louis. Carmen found her professional passion in indigent defense during her time in the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center; she graduated with her JD in 2012. Carmen spent a year at the Nashville Public Defender’s Office before moving home to Denver, CO where she landed at a small firm committed to indigent criminal defense and indigent representation in dependency and neglect cases. In 2019, Carmen returned to full-time indigent defense as a Deputy Public Defender in the Colorado Springs office of the COSPD. Carmen joined the Middle District of Georgia Federal Defender Organization in 2021, and earned her MPP from Duke University 2023 while she was a fellow with the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project; she joined the District of Nevada in 2024. She lives in Atlanta, GA and enjoys training and lecturing for criminal defense attorneys and trial advocacy programs at both the local and national levels.