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Aamra Ahmad is a senior policy counsel with the 老澳门开奖结果, where she advocates for criminal justice reform at the federal level. Aamra brings her experience working in the criminal justice system and the U.S. Congress to the 老澳门开奖结果.

Prior to joining the 老澳门开奖结果, Aamra administered a national litigation project at the Federal Public & Community Defenders that led to over 3,700 sentence reductions for people imprisoned under the racially unjust crack-powder cocaine disparity. Before that, as counsel to Congressman Robert C. 鈥淏obby鈥� Scott, Aamra worked with stakeholders across the political spectrum to ensure more robust reforms were included in the FIRST STEP Act that passed Congress with broad bipartisan support in 2018. Aamra first developed her criminal justice expertise representing clients as a federal public defender in the Eastern District of Virginia, where she served as lead trial counsel in drug, terrorism, wire fraud, firearm, and immigration cases. She also represented a Guantanamo detainee tortured by U.S. officials.

Aamra currently serves as co-chair of the Justice Roundtable鈥檚 sentencing reform working group and has conducted national and local trainings on federal sentencing issues.

Aamra received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and her B.A. from Wellesley College.