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Tamar Alexanian

Tamar Alexanian is a Practitioner-in-Residence with the Elliott Milstein Civil Advocacy Clinic. In the Civil Advocacy Clinic (CAC), Professor Alexanian supervises students in civil cases involving survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as name and gender marker changes for members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Prior to joining the CAC, Professor Alexanian was a staff attorney at the Youth Law Center where she focused on ensuring that system-involved youth had access to their voting rights. Professor Alexanian began her legal career as a Skadden Fellow at the Children’s Law Center of California where she focused on representing LGBTQ+ foster youth to access gender affirming care, legal and non-legal resources, and name and gender marker changes. In law school, she was a student attorney at three clinics at the University of Michigan and one clinic at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Professor Alexanian holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. in Gender Studies and English from Vanderbilt University. She is a member of the California bar.

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Jessica Harris

Jessica Harris is the Practitioner-in-Residence of the Janet R. Spragens Federal Tax Clinic. Prior to joining 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß, Professor Harris was the Director of the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic with Legal Services of Northern Virginia. While as a Director, she represented low-income taxpayers with their tax disputes with the IRS and the State of Virginia. Professor Harris also provided educational presentations and resources to the surrounding communities on relevant tax issues, tax rights and tax benefits. While at Legal Services of Northern Virginia, Professor Harris also practiced in family, landlord/tenant, consumer, bankruptcy, and unemployment law. As a staff attorney, she represented clients in circuit court, district court, federal court, and administrative hearings and provided educational presentations on multiple areas of law. Professor Harris received her J.D. from Charleston School of Law and her B.S. from North Carolina A&T State University.

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Olinda Moyd

Olinda Moyd is a Distinguished Professor in Residence and Director of the Re-Entry Clinic.  She was previously an Adjunct Professor and Supervising Attorney for the Re-Entry Clinic at the Howard University, School of Law.  Prior to joining the Howard Law faculty, Professor Moyd was Chief Attorney of the Parole Division at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she was employed for three decades.   During her tenure, Professor Moyd provided direct representation to numerous individuals, both at administrative hearings and at proceedings in D.C. Superior Court and the United States District Court. 

Professor Moyd serves on the Law Clinic Kuje Prison Advisory Committee with several other law school clinicians.  This professional clinical advisory team provides mentorship and guidance to the Law Clinic Partnership.  Through service on this committee, she has trained law students and clinicians at three law schools in Abuja, Nigeria as they provide legal aid services to detainees awaiting trial at Kuje Prison. She also serves on several boards, including the D.C. Council for Court Excellence, The Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform and Panacea Media Humanized, a media format to build spaces for constructive dialogue to showcase humane solutions. 

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Citlalli Ochoa

Citlalli Ochoa is Practitioner-in-Residence with the International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC). Professor Ochoa is particularly interested in the implementation of international human rights protections to prevent, stop, and remedy fundamental rights' violations at the domestic level.  

Prior to joining the IHRLC, Professor Ochoa was an employment law staff attorney with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, where she provided holistic, community-based legal services to low-income workers. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where she designed and taught a Workers’ Rights Clinic. Professor Ochoa began her legal career as a fellow and then staff attorney with the International Justice Resource Center, conducting advocacy to advance the expansive interpretation of human rights law and ensure the transparent and independent functioning of human rights oversight bodies. She has also clerked at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights with the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression.  

Professor Ochoa holds a J.D. from University of California, Irvine School of Law and a B.A. in Political Science/International Relations from University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Charles Ross

Charles Ross is the Practitioner-in-Residence in the Community Economic and Equity Development Clinic, a clinic representing businesses, workers' cooperatives, housing cooperatives, and nonprofit organizations in the District of Columbia and Maryland. Professor Ross’ areas of expertise and scholarly interests include housing law, child welfare law, and small business law.

Professor Ross is a community lawyer who formed his law firm, Charles Ross Law, PLLC in March 2022. Prior to joining WCL, Professor Ross practiced in Los Angeles, California as at Public Counsel and in the District of Columbia at Children’s Law Center. As a member Public Counsel’s Homelessness Prevention Project, he represented clients facing eviction and tenant’s unions in East Los Angeles, Compton, and Inglewood. He hosted Know Your Rights workshops, informing communities of their rights under California’s COVID-19 tenant protections. Professor Ross represented children and families in child welfare proceedings while working at Children’s Law Center. During his time at CLC, he served as a Guardian ad litem attorney, representing children in abuse and neglect, guardianship, and adoption matters. Charles is a founding member of the Brown Bag Project, a community-based organization that supports people experiencing homelessness.

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Tracie Siddiqui

Tracie Siddiqui is a Practitioner-in-Residence in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Most recently, Tracie was an Attorney Advisor in the Intellectual Property Enforcement Branch at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where her practice focused on anti-counterfeiting. Prior to CBP,  Tracie was Vice President & Senior Counsel, Global Intellectual Property at Marriott International, where she managed trademark transactional and enforcement matters for the company’s well-known hotel brands around the world. Before her work as an in-house counsel, Tracie was a senior associate in Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP’s trademark and copyright group, focusing on domestic and international trademark counseling, transactions, and portfolio management. Tracie received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. from the University of Oklahoma.

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Chloe Sugino Souffront

Chloe Sugino is a Practitioner-in-Residence with the Immigrant Justice Clinic (IJC), where students represent clients in a wide variety of immigration matters and advocate for transformative change within the immigration legal system in the U.S. Prior to joining WCL, Professor Sugino represented refugees and asylum seekers as a staff attorney at HIAS. Professor Sugino began her career as an Immigrant Justice Fellow and then, Senior Attorney at the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights. There, she was part of a cohort that provided universal representation to Maryland residents in immigration detention. Professor Sugino represented clients in complex immigration matters, focusing on the consequences of criminal convictions in immigration cases. Professor Sugino holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law and a B.A. in International Affairs from Marquette University in Wisconsin. She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.

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Caroline Wick

Caroline Wick is a Practitioner-In-Residence and the Acting Director of the Disability Rights Law Clinic. She teaches the clinic seminar and supervises students’ representation of clients in matters implicating disability rights, including special education, access to Medicaid services, and decision-making matters. Before re-joining 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏßWCL, she was the Director of the Health Law Clinic at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law where she taught and supervised students’ representation of clients in Medicaid appeals. Previously, she taught in the 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏßWCL Disability Rights Law Clinic for three years and taught Legal Ethics. Her scholarship is informed by her case work. Before becoming a clinician, Professor Wick was a senior attorney with Children’s Law Center (CLC) in Washington, D.C. She worked in CLC’s medical-legal partnership and was the lead on-site attorney at a community-based medical center. She represented parents and children in the areas of special education, housing conditions, public benefits, and access to healthcare, and she trained and mentored pro bono attorneys. Professor Wick also clerked for a Family Magistrate Judge in the Baltimore City Circuit Court. Professor Wick is a member of the Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., Bars. She is a graduate of Tulane Law School and Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She received the 2015 Brian P. McSherry Award from the law school for showing the greatest dedication to the pro bono program.

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