Before joining the UNC School of Law faculty in January 2008, Barbara Fedders was a clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Institute for four years. Prior to that, she worked for the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services as a Soros Justice Fellow and staff attorney.
Fedders began her career in clinical work at the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project at Boston College Law School. As a law student, she was a Root-Tilden-Snow scholar and she co-founded the NYU Prisoners' Rights and Education Project. She is a member of the advisory boards of the Prison Policy Initiative and the Equity Project. Her research interests include children in conflict with the law, critical race theory and queer theory.