Associate Professor Kimani Paul-Emile teaches and researches in the areas of bioethics, health law, and drug regulatory policy. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University, holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and a B.A. in Political Science and in American Civilization from Brown University. Before pursuing her doctoral degree, Dr. Paul-Emile served as associate counsel in the Poverty Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Prior to that, she practiced civil rights law at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she was a National Association for Public Interest Law Fellow (now Equal Justice Works) and later the William Moses Kunstler Fellow for Racial Justice. Dr. Paul-Emile has also served as Senior Faculty Development Consultant & Coordinator of Diversity Programming at the NYU Center for Teaching Excellence.