Camilla Hsu joined the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center as a senior policy attorney in September 2024. Her work focuses on litigation related to Due Process and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and supporting the Center’s mission of advocating for innovative criminal legal reform.
Prior to her work at the Deason Center, Hsu was Director of Strategic Litigation for the Texas Fair Defense Project, where she oversaw a litigation team focused on redressing constitutional violations in the criminal legal system and improving public defense across the state. She was also previously an appellate public defender at the Center for Appellate Litigation in New York City, a trial-level public defender at The Bronx Defenders, and an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center where she taught in the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic. Across her career, she has brought challenges to combat the criminalization of poverty, represented clients facing criminal charges, and supervised students representing their own clients.
Hsu graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Yale University.