is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia School of Law. She teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and a seminar on reform prosecution. Her research interests center on ways that the criminal system could do more justice, including through prosecutorial reform, incorporating community experiences into criminal policy, reducing the use of prisons, and improving conditions and opportunities for prisoners.

Eileen is proud of her roots in Peoria, Illinois, where she attended Bradley University and returned to clerk for U.S. District Court Judge James E. Shadid after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School. She worked in the federal habeas unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office before beginning her teaching career at Wake Forest University School of Law in 2021.

Eileen is passionate about books, nature, and community-building with prisoners, especially where they intersect. She has served on the boards of the Forsyth County Audubon Society, Philadelphia’s Liberation Foundation, and her local neighborhood association. She served as an election judge for her local North Carolina precinct, and as the faculty advisor for Wake Forest’s Prison Letters Project, which arranged a book drive for a North Carolina prison. In her free time, you can find her playing video games with friends, painting the birds in her backyard, and attempting to read every Hugo-Award-winning novel.