Category: Commentaries

Maggie Carrasquillo Director of Training of The Bronx Defenders’ Social Work Practice    Being a defense social worker can be a lonely world. That’s what one participant shared with me during a lunch break at our inaugural Defenders Academy: Social Work Edition last November. Social workers and advocates often work in the most human, complex, and emotionally charged parts of defense work in criminal, housing, immigration, and family courts. We fight alongside […]

Emma Ketteringham Managing Director of The Bronx Defenders’ Family Defense Practice   When I first met Ruth, she was a young mother of two boys. Both were born after difficult pregnancies and with developmental challenges; her two-year-old in particular struggled to gain weight. His pediatrician instructed Ruth to put him on a strict feeding regimen, […]