Patricia Allard

Patricia Allard is a lawyer by training and a Black feminist activist and policy analyst in practice. As Associate Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, Pat’s research and advocacy efforts focus on the impact of criminal justice policy on low-income women and women of color. She is currently developing a collaborative research-advocacy project, documenting the impact of current child welfare policies on incarcerated and formerly incarcerated mothers and their children. Pat is the author of “Claiming Our Rights: Challenging Post-Conviction Penalties Through an International Human Rights Framework,” in Civil Penalties, Social Consequences. Pat is also the author of Life Sentence: Denying Welfare Benefits to Women Convicted of Drug Offenses, and co-author of Racing the Police: Race, Police Brutality and International Human Rights in the United States of America, and Regaining the Vote: An Assessment of Activity Relating to Felony Disenfranchisement Laws. Pat is a graduate of Queen’s University Law School (1996) and received her MA in Criminology from the Center of Criminology at the University of Toronto (1999).