Julia Hernandez (she/her)

Transition Committee Member

Julia Hernandez is Associate Professor of Law at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. Her legal practice, teaching and scholarship aim to contest the policing and separation of families. Julia is co-director of CUNY’s Family Defense Practicum. In the practicum’s work supporting communities and families as they push back against the family policing system, Julia and her students represent parents in family policing investigations, in judicial and administrative proceedings and in civil rights lawsuits.  

Before joining CUNY’s faculty, Julia represented parents accused of child maltreatment at Brooklyn Defender Services. She was also a Staff Attorney at Catholic Migration Services. Julia is a graduate of State University of New York at New Paltz and the 2021-2022 Fulbright Research Chair in Human Rights & Social Justice at the University of Ottawa.