Kate Mogulescu
Kate Mogulescu is a Professor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School. She directs the Criminal Defense & Advocacy Clinic, which she launched in 2017. Her work and scholarship focus largely on gender, sentencing and reentry issues in the criminal legal system, with a focus on gender-based violence, intimate partner abuse, sex work and human trafficking. Before starting the Clinic, Kate worked as a public defender at The Legal Aid Society for 14 years.
Kate has founded several projects, including the Exploitation Intervention Project (2011), the Survivor Reentry Project (2016) and the Survivors Justice Project (2020), where she currently serves as the Legal & Policy Director. Kate offers critical analysis of carceral approaches to violence and harm and advocates extensively against the criminalization of vulnerable and exploited people. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School and B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
