Tanya Greene is an attorney who has lived, practiced law, and consulted on criminal defense issues across the United States. She most recently served as the Training and Assistance Counsel for the National Consortium for Capital Defense Training developing education programs for death penalty defense trial practitioners nationwide. Prior to that, Ms. Greene represented capitally-charged clients at the Capital Defender Office in New York City and worked as a staff attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, representing a full caseload of indigent capital clients in New York City trials, and throughout Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi at trial, appeal, and in state and federal post-conviction proceedings. Ms. Greene won the Reebok International Human Rights Award for her capital defense work in 1999.
Ms. Greene has developed street law programs for youth and others in major urban centers addressing housing, immigration, as well as criminal justice issues. Ms. Greene has guest lectured at a number of colleges and law schools and taught a course on race and capital punishment at Columbia in 2007. Ms. Greene has a range of law practice experience including representing citizens of the Navajo Nation in civil proceedings, incarcerated women in prison administrative proceedings and in family court, and tenants in housing court. Throughout her legal career, Ms. Greene has taught, supervised, and counseled law students.
Ms. Greene graduated with a B.A. in African American Studies and Sociology from Wesleyan University and received her juris doctor from Harvard Law School.
Areas of counseling expertise: criminal justice/death penalty; 2L, 3L counseling; government and domestic public interest.
