Carrie Plover, Jd, Msw Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, New York, United States

Partnered with the Center for Family Representation to support litigation and reform efforts on behalf of families and communities facing disproportionate rates of surveillance, policing, and disruption by the family regulation system.

New York, New York, United States

Helped develop and implement curriculum for the fall 2023 session of Lawyers and Justice, a legal ethics course.

New York, New York, United States

Assisted professor with socio-historical and legal research for her upcoming book, which will detail the history of nine drugs.

New York, New York, United States

Identified source material for a work of critical scholarship concerning legal ethics and abolitionist lawyers.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

- Assisted attorneys representing parents and other caregivers in Family Court.- Received intensive supervision and feedback from staff attorneys in the context of a comprehensive training program. - Supported Brooklyn Defenders' mission to keep families safely together and reunify families as soon as possible when separation occurs.

Bronx, New York, United States

- Researched property and housing law for tenants' attorneys practicing at Bronx Housing Civil Court. - Assisted with client intake; observed housing court proceedings; performed benefits advocacy for two clients while under attorney supervision; received weekly supervision from a senior staff attorney.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

- Composed legal memoranda to assist the Deputy Chief of Appeals with affirmative litigation promoting civil rights.- Produced research on federal, state, and New York City law.- Collaborated with Assistant U.S. Attorney on a case on appeal to the Second Circuit.- Participated in externship seminar focused on planning and implementing litigation strategy.

New York, New York, United States

- Worked closely with families throughout all stages of representation, including intake, investigation, settlement negotiations, and the possible execution of administrative hearings regarding the provision of special education services. - Assisted staff attorneys with impact litigation as well as policy reform initiatives, both of which prioritize the needs of students most at risk of academic failure.- Participated in weekly training sessions to learn about relevant law, regulations, cases, and trial skills while working in close collaboration with an attorney mentor.

- Completed clinical assessments to obtain the social, family, and developmental history of all children staying at Freedom House, a crisis shelter for survivors of domestic violence.- Offered play therapy, family counseling, and parenting support while maintaining a separate caseload of adult clients. - Coordinated domestic violence support groups, including pet therapy and movement therapy.- Conducted phone screenings for admission into shelter.- Referred clients to shelter's family law attorney on as-needed basis.- Responded to residents’ health and safety crises as they arose.

New York, New York

- Engaged in a New York City policy initiative designed to recruit, train, and integrate behavioral health clinicians in practices across underserved areas of the five boroughs. - Offered psychosocial assessments, counseling, and treatment plans to low-income adults with substance use disorders and/or serious mental illness.- Led individual and group therapy sessions using CBT, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused brief therapy.- Referred clients to community-based mental health clinics, food pantries, homeless shelters, and domestic violence shelters. - Logged more than 50 hours in trainings covering diverse therapeutic modalities.

New York, United States

- Built grassroots and legislative support for the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA), one of the most ambitious and racially-just marijuana legalization programs in the country, which became state law in March 2021. - Lobbied the New York Legislature to sign two bills, S2523/A868 and S1795/A533, which respectively expand access to syringes as well as opioid-agonist therapies in jails and prisons, later signed into state law in October 2021. - Helped organize a successful conference on opioid agonist therapies in corrections facilities, which featured public health specialists, government officials, and activists.

Greater New York City Area

- Provided individualized support to parents at risk of losing their parental rights.- Collaborated with social workers, attorneys and parent advocates to address clients’ therapeutic, legal, and material needs.- Co-facilitated group therapy sessions involving newly-pregnant women with existing ACS cases.- Engaged in legislative advocacy with the New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (NYCAIC) to lobby for passage of the HALT Solitary Confinement Act, which became state law in 2021.

Juris Doctor

Activities and Societies: Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law & Ethics (2021-2024); Board Member & Uncontested Divorce Project (UDP).

Master Of Science In Social Work, Public Policy Analysis

Bachelor’S Degree, International/Global Studies, French And Francophone Studies

Activities and Societies: Listener at CARES Sexual Assault Hotline (Spring 2015-Spring 2016); Student Fellow and House Student Advisor.

Language School Diploma, Spanish, A-

- Successfully participated in a Spanish program that required full language immersion from June-August. - Took coursework in Level.

Credit Toward Ba In French & Francophone Studies, French Studies, A-

- Successfully participated in a French program that demanded total language immersion from June-August. - Took Level 4: Advanced French.