[Update July 9]
Thanks Angelo!
[end of update]
We are pleased to welcome the PreProBono Public Interest Guest Speaker for this coming Saturday (July 7), Angelo Petrigh!
I'm copying his bio below but I think I can sum it up with these three words: Angelo's a badass. He graduated with honors from NYU Law School and now works at the Bronx Defenders defending indigent clients accused of crimes.
It would seem that Angelo is also very handsome isn't he? We and our Fellows are excited to hear Angelo tell us his stories about working in the criminal justice system.
We realize that many of you want to ask our guest speakers questions, but aren't in NYC! Fear not for Alan, our co-founder, is working hard on a teleporter. He could have finished it a month ago but, no, he insists on it being capable of interstellar teleportation... Anyway, we have a back up plan.
Submit questions to Angelo online!
Submit your questions to Angelo in our comments below and we will select 3 to ask him. We will post his answers along with a short summary of his talk after the event concludes.
Bio: Angelo Petrigh is a staff attorney at the Bronx Defenders, which provides a holistic, team based approach to representing individuals accused of crimes. He graduated cum laude from NYU School of Law where he was a Dean’s Award Scholar and a Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation Scholar. While in law school, Angelo worked full time on a post-conviction capital case at the Equal Justice Initiative. Additionally, Angelo interned with the Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Defender Services and the Bronx Defenders. Angelo spent his first summer at the Housing Conservation Coordinators, a nonprofit housing law organization. Before law school he worked as a paralegal at the Federal Trade Commission.