Ngozi Ndulue is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Post-Conviction Criminal Defense Clinic, where students represent clients in post-conviction challenges to their criminal convictions. This clinic focuses on the skills necessary for successful post-conviction representation, including writing and research skills, client relationship building, post-conviction investigation, and understanding and integrating racial justice claims.

Before joining UDC Law, Professor Ndulue served in several non-profit leadership roles focused on racial justice, the criminal legal system, and indigent defense. Most recently, she was the Innocence Project’s first Special Advisor on Race and Wrongful Conviction. In this role, she provided leadership and expertise on racial justice, equity, bias, and discrimination and its impact on the functioning of the criminal legal system and, particularly, wrongful conviction. Prior to joining the Innocence Project, she held leadership positions at the Death Penalty Information Center, the National NAACP, and the Ohio Justice & Policy Center. She also served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Arizona Capital Habeas Unit from 2008-2011.

Professor Ndulue has a law degree from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati.