Kristina Kersey is The Gault Center’s Senior Youth Defense Counsel, where she manages The Center’s provision of training and technical assistance to the youth defender community.

Kristina has specialized in youth delinquency representation her entire career. Prior to joining The Gault Center, she spent more than 18 years representing youth on the front lines in New Jersey, as an Assistant Deputy Public Defender at the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender. She was the trial attorney in State in the Interest of N.H., in which the New Jersey Supreme Court held that youth are entitled to full and complete discovery prior to a transfer hearing

Kristina received a BA from Rutgers College, New Brunswick and a JD from Georgetown Law, and was a judicial clerk to Lawrence M. Lawson, A.J.S.C.

Kristina is a proud Jersey girl, Springsteen fan, and roommate to a rescue chihuahua named Biggie Smalls.