Christy Hiance wants to help people when she becomes a lawyer. She started doing it this summer, before her second year at Chase.
Christy worked in the Hamilton County (Ohio) Public Defender Office, with a grant from the Chase Summer Public Interest Fellowship Program. She interviewed clients and helped in the Fresh Start Expungement Clinic.
• What she got out of it: “I personally gained an understanding that criminal defense work boils down to uncovering and presenting the client's humanity.”
• What she looks forward to next: “The work of fact-gathering outside of what the other side has presented will be beneficial to my student externship with the Kentucky Innocence Project. I am excited to continue the practice of client-centered representation with an organization premised on rewriting the stories of the wrongfully convicted.”
