Ikram Ally is an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of New Jersey. He previously spent his entire career as a public defender in Florida. This includes as a supervisor and felony-attorney trainer in Broward County. While at Broward, he helped develop a training curriculum and revised manual for office-wide use; trained and supervised fellow public defenders; and administered CLE training on topics including closing arguments, to record preservation in jury selection with a focus on prosecutorial misconduct guiding race and gender-based use of strikes, and strategies for identifying and challenging that conduct. He also assisted as second-chair to trials with the primary role of jury selection. During this time, the public defenders he worked with accounted for a winning trial record. Ikram was also a public defender in Palm Beach County. While there, he worked in its juvenile, appellate, and trial divisions. His total jury trial experience comes with a remarkable acquittal rate.

Ikram’s pedagogy with trial practice and teaching takes a more race-conscious approach, largely informed by his background in Anthropology and personal interests. He is a graduate of Temple Law School, American University (M.A., Public Anthropology with concentration in race, gender, and social justice), and University of Florida (B.A., Anthropology; B.S., Psychology).