Maria Mier joined NLSP as a Howard C. Westwood Fellow in September 2009. Maria holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law (UDC-DCSL), where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. She received a Joseph A. Rauh scholarship in 2005 for public interest work completed prior to entering law school and again in 2007 for her clinical performance. Maria also received an Earl H. Davis Scholar Award for her law school clinical work.

At UDC, Maria represented low-income clients in the Housing and Consumer Law, the Small Business and Community Development, and the Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinics.

While living in Columbia Heights, Maria was a founding member of Thirty-Five Nineteen Tenants’ Association and she hopes to be active in her new neighborhood of Petworth. She is a member of the core collective for DC Area Books to Prisons Project, an all-volunteer organization that provides free educational and reading materials to prisoners.

Maria is a member of the D.C. bar.