Danielle Burs returns to AUWCL, where she earned her J.D., to lead the Community Economic and Equity Development Clinic. She joins from the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she served as a clinical teaching fellow in the Community Development Clinic, supervising students providing transactional legal services to Baltimore-area nonprofits, small businesses in underserved neighborhoods, affordable housing groups, and community associations. Her career has centered on transactional, legislative, and regulatory work in the District, including as senior policy counsel at the Council for Court Excellence and in roles at the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Goldblatt Martin Pozen, the office of D.C. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development, and MANNA. Her areas of expertise include community development, nonprofit law, and legislation and regulation, and she serves on volunteer boards focused on community development. She holds a B.A. in government relations and English from Clark University.

Melanie Oberlin Knapp became director of the Pence Law Library on July 1, following a national search, and succeeds Adeen Postar. She arrives from George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, where she served as associate dean for library and technology, overseeing library and technology services and helping guide the library through ABA reaccreditation. She previously held positions at The Ohio State University Moritz Law Library and the University of Texas Tarlton Law Library, and practiced environmental and administrative law in Texas before entering academic librarianship. She serves on the executive committee of the AALS Section on Libraries and Legal Information and as secretary of the Society of Academic Law Library Directors, and has published extensively on legal research pedagogy, citation metrics, and the role of law librarians in academe. Her current interests include generative artificial intelligence, the NextGen Bar Exam, and shifts in legal publishing.

Kene Okocha teaches and writes in criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and victims' rights. He joins the faculty after fifteen years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where he litigated more than forty trials and spent seven years as deputy chief of the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section. In that role he helped build one of the first domestic violence focused restorative justice programs in a U.S. Attorney's Office, developed with the NYU Silver School of Social Work. He earlier served as an assistant district attorney in Wisconsin. His article on body worn camera evidence and intimate partner violence prosecutions is forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal, and he trains prosecutors, judges, forensic nurses, and victim advocates through the Department of Justice's OPDAT program, the National Black Prosecutors Association, and the Zero Abuse Project. He holds a B.S. and J.D. from the University of Wisconsin.