Margarita O’Donnell was an IILJ Scholar from 2006-2009. She received her J.D. from NYU Law cum laude in 2009 and is currently an associate in Zuckerman Spaeder’s Washington, DC office. Prior to joining the firm, Maggie was a trial attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. In that capacity, she represented hundreds of felony and misdemeanor clients and tried multiple cases. Maggie previously clerked for the Hon. Julio M. Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Hon. Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Maggie was also a legal intern at the Comité para la Defensa de la Salud, Ética y los Derechos Humanos in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she worked on human rights issues.