Education Law Center Builds Organizational Capacity to Tackle Public Education Issues 

Education Law Center’s ability to support public schools and students in New Jersey and across the nation has increased this spring with the addition of attorney Camara Stokes Hudson and Program Assistant Darlene Nawuridam. In addition, Katrina Reichert, who began as a UC Davis Public Service Legal Fellow at ELC, is now a full-time Staff Attorney focusing on school finance, while Staff Attorney Patrick Cremin, who joined ELC in 2025, brings additional support to the ELC anti-voucher campaign, Public Funds Public Schools. 

“ELC’s work has grown considerably as a result of federal attacks on public education, escalating threats to students’ civil rights, private education voucher proliferation, and states’ continued shortchanging of public school funding and adequate support for students,” said ELC Executive Director Robert Kim. “For those reasons and many more, we’re so pleased to welcome our new staff to ELC.” 

Camara Stokes Hudson comes to ELC from the New York Civil Liberties Union Racial Justice Center. At NYCLU she represented students and community organizations on first Amendment and environmental justice matters and coordinated an initiative examining bullying policies in 41 school districts. She has participated in the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Racial Equity Clinic, interned at the Advancement Project, and was a fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children. Camara has a B.S. degree from the University of Vermont and J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Co-director of the Suspension Representation Project. 

Darlene Nawuridam joins ELC after serving as the Equity & Outreach Coordinator at YWCA Princeton, where she managed volunteer recruitment and multi-site program execution with community partners. Her communications work included website management, social media creation, and external outreach to strengthen community engagement. Darlene also interned at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, spent a service year with City Year, and is currently a board member of Not In Our Town Princeton, a multi-racial, multi-faith group dedicated to racial justice and inclusive communities. Darlene received her B.A. from Spelman College. 

Patrick Cremin was an attorney at Children’s Law Center of California before joining ELC. He represented foster youth impacted by abuse and neglect in their dependency court proceedings, advocating to ensure that his clients’ safety, educational, medical, mental health, and housing needs were met. In addition to his work on the Public Funds Public Schools campaign, Patrick engages in legal and policy advocacy related to education equity and student rights at ELC. Patrick has a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he participated in the Education Law Clinic. 

Katrina Reichert worked in the field of education prior to attending law school and joining ELC. She was Executive Director of Improvement Strategy and Communications at the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE), where she developed and implemented policies to improve Louisiana’s most high need schools. She also served as Chief of Staff to the Assistant State Superintendent of Academics at the LDOE. Before moving to Louisiana, Katrina served as Director of Expanded Learning at Aspire Public Schools, and also as a project manager at Jobs for the Future, where she managed a 15-state education policy learning network. While attending UC Davis School of Law, she participated in the Civil Rights Clinic and Aoki Conviction and Sentence Integrity Clinic serving incarcerated people across California. She also worked as co-director of the student-run Gender and Name Change Project. Katrina received her B.A. from Mills College and an Ed.M. from Harvard University Graduate School of Education. At ELC, she works on litigation and policy advocacy in the areas of school equity and funding and student rights. 

For more information about ELC staff members, visit our staff page. 

Press Contact:
Sharon Krengel
Director of Policy, Strategic Partnerships and Communications
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