Kate Mogulescu serves as the Director of the Survivors Justice Project. She is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School where she has led the Criminal Defense & Advocacy Clinic since 2017. Her work and scholarship focus largely on gender, sentencing and reentry issues in the criminal legal system, with a focus on gender-based violence, intimate partner abuse, sex work and human trafficking. The Clinic represents survivors of human trafficking and other forms of gender-based violence or family abuse who have been arrested, prosecuted and punished.

Prior to creating the Clinic, Kate spent 14 years as a public defender with The Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defense Practice. In 2011, she founded the Exploitation Intervention Project to specifically represent both sex workers and victims of exploitation facing prosecution. She also developed and continues to lead the Survivor Reentry Project, a national training and technical assistance initiative on post-conviction advocacy for survivors of trafficking, and the Human Trafficking Clemency Initiative.

Kate offers critical analysis of carceral approaches to violence and harm. She has served as a speaker and specialist on human trafficking for the U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Section in India, and has also testified before the New York City Council, the New York State Legislature, and the United Nations Human Rights Committee. She regularly trains public defenders, prosecutors, and other members of the legal community and advocates extensively against the criminalization of vulnerable and exploited people. Kate received her J.D. from Yale Law School and B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton.