Brooke Cordoba

Brooke Cordoba serves as the Gittis Legal Clinics’ Legal Assistant. In her work, she supports the daily operations of the clinics and assists clinic faculty, students, and staff in the representation of their clients. She provides primary support for the Advocacy for Racial and Civil (ARC) Justice Clinic.

Brooke joined Penn Carey Law in 2023, after graduating from the University of Florida with degrees in Political Science and Neuroscience. Throughout undergrad, Brooke was involved in speaking about, and advocating for, DE&I on campus and researched race and ethnicity as a predictive variable of prosecutorial misconduct. She interned at the Broward County Office of Public Defense, as well as the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on their Criminal Justice Project (CJP).

She is looking forward to applying to law school in a few years. She hopes to become a public interest lawyer, with an interest in working in the criminal justice reform and racial justice spaces.