About me
Audrey has been a lawyer and member of the National Lawyers Guild since 1980, and an activist all her life. She practiced criminal law as a Public Defender and civil rights law (largely class actions) at the NJ Office of Inmate Advocacy. She was legal director of the Prisoners Legal Clinic at Seton Hall Law School, which was comprised of lawyers, law students and former prison paralegals. In 2001, during the first intifada, she moved to Palestine and practiced International Law there for 7 years, including helping to organize a coalition against the systematic of torture by Israel. In 2008, she joined the Free Gaza Movement and sailed to Gaza to break the Israeli blockade – after which she was detained and eventually deported by Israel. She then became part of the legal team representing passengers on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which was attacked by Israel, killing 9 passengers and injuring hundreds more. She helped represent some of the US flotilla passengers before the International Criminal Court. She was for many years co-chair of the NLG’s Palestine Subcommittee and is currently co-chair of its Mass Incarceration Committee.