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Defend(H)ers

by Melinda Sarafa, NACDL Women in Criminal Defense Committee, Chip Warren

From death row to the streets of Harlem to Guantanamo Bay, women criminal defense attorneys speak in their own voices about the cases, the clients, and the community they built for one another. Defend(H)ers is a podcast presented by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Women in Criminal Defense Committee, featuring these attorneys in extended, in-depth conversations about their work.

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Meghan Skelton & Premal Dharia

Premal Dharia grew up the child of Indian immigrants in Mingo County, West Virginia, a former coal mining town where her family's food, accents, and visible differen

Nov 2
1 h 01 min

Sonya Pfeiffer & Denny LeBoeuf

Denny LeBoeuf spent 13 years bartending in the French Quarter before going to law school at Tulane, a path she returned to a decade later when a bar regular told her phil

Oct 26
1 h 04 min

Molly Parmer & JoEllyn Jones

JoEllyn L. Jones grew up in Gouldtown, New Jersey, a South Jersey community she describes as one of the first free Black communities in the country. In this conversation

Oct 19
1 h 00 min

Melinda Sarafa & Teny Geragos

Teny Geragos has had a run that would be difficult to make up. She delivered the opening statement in the Sean Combs trial, cross-examined the complainant in Harvey Weins

Oct 14
1 h 06 min

Melinda Sarafa & Teny Geragos

Teny Geragos has had a run that would be difficult to make up. She delivered the opening statement in the Sean Combs trial, cross-examined the complainant in Harvey Weins

Oct 12
1 h 06 min

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Teny Geragos breaks down the Combs trial and talks candidly about criminal defense in this captivating episode. I couldn’t stop listening.

Crim defender · Oct 2026

What an incredible window into the real world of criminal defense and fighting within a system that was not built for women. I can’t wait for the next episode.

Trial maven · Oct 2026

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