Eduardo Ferrer

Eduardo Ferrer serves as the Policy Director of the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Initiative advocating to improve the DC juvenile justice system and as a Visiting Professor in the Georgetown University Law Center supervising students in the Juvenile Justice Clinic. Eduardo is also a Certified Trainer in the National Juvenile Defender Center’s Juvenile Training Immersion Program (JTIP) and conducts training for juvenile defense attorneys across the country. Prior to joining the Georgetown University Law Center, Eduardo was a founding member of DC Lawyers for Youth (DCLY), a DC-based action tank dedicated to making DC’s juvenile justice system the smallest and best system in the country. During his ten-year tenure at DCLY, Eduardo was chiefly responsible for carrying out the organization’s research, advocacy, and direct representation work.