Marie Ndiaye is the supervising attorney of the Decarceration Project at the Legal Aid Society. The Decarceration Project is a litigation and policy initiative dedicated to ending the pretrial detention of low-income New Yorkers and eradicating the criminal justice system’s disproportionate impact on communities of color. Before re-joining Legal Aid, Marie was the senior policy manager at the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice, where she focused on pretrial justice – bail, discovery, speedy trial – and parole reform. Marie began her legal career at the Legal Aid Society as a staff attorney in the Criminal Defense Practice. As a public defender, she represented more than 2,000 low-income New Yorkers charged with misdemeanors and felonies in Manhattan’s Criminal Court. Marie is a graduate of the City University of New York’s Hunter College. She received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2012.