Claudia Peña

Claudia Peña is the Co-founding Director of the Center for Justice at UCLA and is on faculty at UCLA School of Law and in the Gender Studies Department. Her scholarship addresses how trauma intersects with the legal system. She teaches both students and attorneys how to practice “trauma and healing informed” lawyering/advocacy and has trained the Federal a cross section of clinics at law schools across the west coast, various Title IX offices at educational institutions and a multitude of legal service providers including those serving veterans, immigrants, people facing houselessness, survivors of human trafficking & domestic violence and children/youth who have been abused or neglected. Claudia is a restorative and transformative justice practitioner as well as an artist. She is the former Executive Director of For Freedoms and currently serves as Senior Advisor.