april camara

April is president and CEO of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and co-founder of the Black Public Defender Association.

April Camara, who has championed equal justice for two decades, currently serves as president & CEO of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLDA). A graduate of Howard School of Law, she began her career as a public defender in her hometown of Memphis before joining the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and then NLADA.

Prior to taking the association’s helm, April served as NLADA’s chief of lifelong learning and as vice president for Strategic Alliances & Innovation.

She is also a co-founder of the Black Public Defender Association (BPDA), the association’s newest section, launched to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in public defense and to promote racial equity in criminal legal systems.

As the 2020 chair of the American Bar Association’s influential Criminal Justice Section, April led the national association’s adoption of crucial policy on raising the age for juvenile prosecutions, reparations, the abolition of private prisons and race equity and prosecution.

Expertise: public defense; racial equity; criminal justice; DEI; criminal legal systems; juvenile prosecutions

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