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Lauren Johnson, JD (she/her/hers)

Director
ACLU Abortion Criminal Defense Initiative 
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

In leading the ACLU’s Abortion Criminal Defense Initiative, Lauren brings insights and experiences from her career as a criminal defense attorney and civil rights advocate, fighting on behalf of communities and impacted individuals to challenge injustices within the criminal legal system. As a trial public defender, Lauren represented individuals charged with serious felonies at the Public Defender Service in Washington, DC (PDS). Since leaving PDS, Lauren, a former Prettyman Fellow, served as Senior Legal Counsel at The Justice Collaborative, where she worked to address systemic drivers of incarceration in local criminal legal systems across the country. Most recently, she has served as Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she has led litigation and policy initiatives focused on lasting and systemic change in the criminal legal system, including fighting on behalf of those impacted by state violence, those harmed by unlawful police enforcement patterns and practices, and individuals charged with capital offenses.

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