Biography

Priscilla Ocen Critical Race Studies Law Fellow B.A., San Diego State University, 2003 J.D., UCLA, 2007 ocen@law.ucla.edu

Priscilla Ocen is the Critical Race Studies Law Fellow at UCLA. Her fellowship project will examine the intersection between race, gender and mass incarceration, particularly with respect to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated Black women.

Priscilla graduated magna cum laude from San Diego State University with a B.A. in Africana Studies and Political Science (2003).  Thereafter, she received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law (2007) with a specialization in Critical Race Studies.  Upon graduation, Priscilla clerked for the Honorable Eric L. Clay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.    Following her clerkship, Priscilla served as the Thurgood Marshall Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, where she litigated in the areas of voting rights, affirmative action, school desegregation, police misconduct and spearheaded the development of a Black Women’s Reentry Project.