Emily Schwartz is Senior Counsel for the Criminal Justice Reform Program at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice.

Before joining the Institute, Emily was a public defender in both New Jersey and New York City. Most recently, she worked as an Assistant Deputy Public Defender for the Office of the Public Defender in Passaic County, NJ and previously as a Senior Attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services.

Emily received her J.D. from CUNY School of Law and B.A. from the University of Vermont.