Prof.
Audrey Natcone
has been involved in social justice issues since she was a teen-ager.
Her background includes volunteering at crisis intervention hotlines,
working with runaway and throwaway children, advocating for battered
women, teaching classes at the Cook County Jail, serving on the Board
of Directors at a neighborhood settlement house, and participating
in the planning of a Take Back the Night march in Chicago.
Natcone
is a graduate of Northeastern’s Criminal Justice and Sociology programs,
then earned a J.D. at Chicago-Kent College of Law. While a student
at Kent, she was active in the National Lawyer’s Guild, worked on
equity and death penalty issues, and helped coordinate the Chicago
Women and Law Conference.
Natcone
used her J.D. to work for social justice. She helped battered
women obtain divorces, volunteered at a tenant rights organization,
worked with researchers on issues surrounding homelessness, and represented
criminal defendants as a Cook County Public Defender.
Natcone’s
research interests include ex-offender re-entry issues, racism, housing,
homelessness, the erosion of civil rights and the rights of criminal
defendants.
