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Mina Quinto Malik
Democratic
Current Occupation
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Previous Occupation
Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General; Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Executive Director, Civilian Complaint Review Board; Special Counsel to the District Attorney, Brooklyn District Attorney's office; Senior Assistant District Attorney, Queens County District Attorney's Office; Criminal Investigator, D.C. Public Defender Service
Education
The American University Washington College of Law, Juris Doctor; Bates College, Bachelor of Arts
Organizational Affiliation
Primo Center for Women & Children, Chicago, IL; D.C. Volunteer Lawyers Project, Washington, D.C.; Mt. Sinai Hospital, Sexual Assault Violence Intervention Program, New York, NY; Democratic National Committee, Women's Leadership Forum; National Hispanic Prosecutors Association; National Asian Pacific American Bar Association; National Black Prosecutors Association; South Asian Bar Association of New York
Prior Public Experience
Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General; Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Executive Director, Civilian Complaint Review Board; Special Counsel to the District Attorney, Brooklyn District Attorney's office; Senior Assistant District Attorney, Queens County District Attorney's Office; Criminal Investigator, D.C. Public Defender Service
Candidate Statement
Mina Malik is an attorney, prosecutor and professor and has dedicated her career to restoring fairness in our criminal justice system.
From her start with the D.C. Public Defender Service; to Special Victims prosecutor in the Queens DA’s office; to serving as Special Counsel to former Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson; to Executive Director of the Civilian Complaint Review Board; to Deputy Attorney General to Attorney General Karl Racine in Washington, D.C.— Mina has seen every side of the criminal justice system and worked for decades on the defense, as a prosecutor and criminal justice reformer.
Mina is a woman of color and immigrant, the daughter of union workers and a proud product of the working-class communities in Corona and Elmhurst, Queens. Mina is married to Derek Sells, a prominent African-American civil rights attorney and former public defender. Together they have two sons.
