Cathryn Crawford
Program Officer

Email: ccrawfor at macfound dot org

Cathryn Crawford is a Program Officer for Juvenile Justice in the Human & Community Development Program.

Cathryn Crawford served as a clinical professor at Northwestern School of Law and a staff attorney at the Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern’s Bluhm Legal Clinic from 1998-2008, where she focused her practice and research on indigent youth charged in criminal and delinquency proceedings. In 2007, Ms. Crawford served as the inaugural director of Juvenile Regional Services, a not-for-profit organization providing holistic representation to indigent youth charged in delinquency court in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. She assisted in assessments of indigent defense for juveniles in several states throughout the country. Ms. Crawford lectures extensively on juvenile and criminal justice issues.

She earned a B.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Texas at Dallas and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.