Alice Fontier, Director of Operations & Deputy Director (Leadership Team)

Alice Fontier has been a practicing criminal defense attorney for over twenty years. She has been a Project Managing Attorney at the Legal Aid Society of New York; Managing Director of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem; and the Managing Director of the Criminal Defense Practice at the Bronx Defenders. She has previously worked at the Federal Defenders of San Diego, and as a private attorney in federal and state courts in New York. Alice has been President of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Parliamentarian of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She regularly teaches trial skills for these associations and at Columbia Law, as well as teaching the Police Misconduct Externship at NYU Law. She graduated from NYU Law.