Alexandra Natapoff is an award-winning legal scholar and criminal justice expert. A 2016 Guggenheim fellow, her book “Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal” reveals the powerful influence that misdemeanors exert over the U.S. criminal system. Her book “Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice” won the ABA Silver Gavel Award Honorable Mention for Books. She is a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, a graduate of Yale University and Stanford University and a member of the American Law Institute. She has testified before Congress, helped draft state and federal reform legislation and appears frequently in national media outlets. Prior to joining the academy, Natapoff served as a federal public defender in Baltimore and was the recipient of an Open Society Institute community fellowship.