Nishi Kumar

Nishi Kumar is Of Counsel at PJI. She supports litigation around various criminal justice issues affecting currently and formerly incarcerated people throughout Louisiana. She graduated from NYU Law School in 2015, where she was a Hays Civil Liberty fellow, a Notes Editor on the NYU Law Review, and co-chair of the South Asian Law Students Association. After graduation, Nishi clerked for Judge Paul Watford on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Jesse Furman on the Southern District of New York. Prior to law school, Nishi was a middle school math teacher at New Orleans College Prep.