Career
In 1995,Henning was a Stuart-Stiller Fellow in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center. After her fellowship,Henning began working at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. [1] While working for the Public Defender Service,Henning helped organize a Juvenile Unit that was designed to meet the multi-disciplinary needs of children in the juvenile legal system and served as the lead attorney for the Juvenile Unit from 1998 until 2001. [2]
In 2001,Henning began working at the Georgetown University Law Center. In 2013,the National Juvenile Defender Center awarded Henning the Robert E. Shepherd Jr. Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense. [2] At the Law Center,Henning is the Blume Professor of Law and the director of the university's Juvenile Justice Clinic. [3] [4] Henning served as the Law Center's Associate Dean for Clinics and Experiential Learning from 2017 to 2020. In 2020,amid the Black Lives Matter movement,Henning started Ambassadors for Racial Justice,a year-long program for defenders committed to challenging racial inequities in the juvenile legal system. [5] In 2021,Henning was awarded the Leadership Prize from the Juvenile Law Center. [2]
On September 28,2021,Henning released her book The Rage of Innocence:How America Criminalizes Black Youth. [2] [6]
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