Sofia McDonald

Sofia McDonald is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law, where she was in the Equal Justice and Capital Defender Clinic, worked for the Policing Project and interned for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Before law school, she was a special education teacher in Chicago with Teach for America. She worked on the appeal of a client on death row in Alabama as a litigation associate at Ropes & Gray LLP prior to joining EJI in 2019.