April Land

April is a Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law where she has been teaching in the Clinical Law Programs since 1997, seeking justice for underserved people while helping law students become effective advocates.  In 2001, April and a group of clinical law students started the New Mexico Innocence and Justice Project, in an effort to prevent and rectify the incarceration of innocent people.  She is also a longtime designee to the New Mexico Sentencing Commission.  April has had extensive exposure to the flaws of the criminal justice system.  Before coming to New Mexico, she was a Legal Services lawyer in a wide range of cases, from Medicaid advocacy to wrongful evictions. She also served as a law clerk at the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and earned an LLM at the Georgetown University Law Center as a Fellow.