Katherine Marcuz, '11, is an assistant defender at the State Appellate Defender Office (SADO) who teaches Criminal Appellate Practice. She joined SADO in 2012 following a clerkship for The Hon. Catharine F. Easterly at the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Michigan Law School. She also holds a master's degree in education from Brooklyn College. Before law school, she worked as a high school English teacher in Brooklyn, New York.