Nitche Ward has been working to protect the rights of families facing financial hardships and the accused for over a decade. In 1998, she began her studies in Criminal Justice at North Carolina Central University. She went on to organize with organizations such as Critical Resistance, and the BlackOut Arts Collective, both nationally active organizations that fight for the rights of the accused and aggressively campaign to abolish the Criminal Industrial Complex. In 2002 she started working with the National Organization for Women, the largest womens organization in the world, organizing protest and demonstrations to protect the rights of women, families seeking economic stability, communities of color, and organizing around programs such as the Women in Prison Project.Ward graduated from the University of Denvers Sturm College of Law with the same passion. Having a background in performance and being ranked internationally in the top five female slam poets and orators in the world, by Poetry Slam, Inc, she marries her background in performance and oral persuasion with her dedication to law and justice in order to aggressively fight for the rights of financially struggling families and the accused. While balancing positions such as, President of the Black Law Student Association and President of the Law Students for Choice, within a few years she developed a reputation as one of the top female trial dogs at DU.