Legal interests: public defense, drug law.
I grew up watching family going in and out of prison. I met public defenders when I was veryyoung and knew that was what I wanted to do. Public defense to me means protecting theindividual citizen against the ever-growing powers of the police state. Oregon is experiencing ahorrific public defender shortage that will only get worse. I feel called to jump in the fray andstart fighting back against the prison industrial complex.