Natalie Smith

Natalie Smith is an associate at Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP. She works on complex litigation and prelitigation matters in federal and state court.

Prior to joining the firm, Natalie was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at New Haven Legal Assistance Association in New Haven, CT, where she provided holistic civil legal representation and self-advocacy tools to people who had experienced criminal legal system involvement. She also worked as a Staff Attorney at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, a non-profit movement lawyering organization based in Oakland, CA.

Natalie received a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she participated in clinics including the Reentry Clinic and Immigrant Rights Clinic through New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Housing Connecticut Clinic, and Access to Law School Program. She also served as a Teaching Assistant to Professor James Forman Jr. in the Access to Law School Program and worked with Professor Emily Bazelon to develop the Prison Letters Project. Natalie completed legal internships with the ACLU of Southern California’s Jails Team and Appellate Advocates, an appellate public defender in New York City, NY.

Natalie received a joint-degree A.B. in Sociology and Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College. Natalie’s volunteer work as the student director of the Youth in Prison Tutoring Program earned a Houston Service Award, and her thesis work on family life after incarceration earned a Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize and Captain Jonathan Fay Prize.  Prior to attending law school, Natalie worked at Harvard University and Columbia University as a sociological researcher and project manager for Professor Bruce Western’s studies on the causes and consequences of mass incarceration.