Quiana Harris is a Supervising Trial Attorney at the D.C. Public Defender Service. Quiana is a native of Rich Square, North Carolina, where her passion for public defense was fostered at a young age. She attended Winston-Salem State University and was taught and mentored by founding members of the Black Panther Party. Quiana has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with a concentration in Public Administration, and is a graduate of Howard University School of Law (HUSL). At HUSL, Quiana was a member of Howard Law Journal, where she authored a published “A Plea to Federal Judges: Combatting Prosecutorial Misconduct in the Cliven Bundy Era,” which was awarded the “Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award,” at the Burton Awards. As a law student, Quiana clerked at the Federal Public Defenders Office, United States District Court of Maryland, and the Washington Lawyers Committee with the Prisoners’ Rights Team. Following HUSL, Quiana joined the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center as an E. Barret Prettyman Fellow in the Juvenile Justice Clinic where she represented children accused of crimes in the District and supervised third year law students in Georgetown’s Juvenile Justice Clinic.