Dean Melanie Leslie and Associate Dean Jenn Kim are pleased to welcome Miriam Lacroix as the law school’s Director of Diversity and Inclusion.  

On May 1, she will join the Office of Student Services and Advising, working to ensure that Cardozo graduates have the cultural competency to be effective leaders and helping to cultivate and sustain an inclusive campus culture where students, faculty, administrators and staff of all backgrounds feel welcome and valued.  

“I’m thrilled that Miriam will be joining our team,” said Kim. “This is an incredibly important position for our Cardozo community, and I’m confident Miriam has the experience and skills to be an essential resource and source of support for our students. Her passion and commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession are going to be invaluable to our entire community.”

Before joining Cardozo, Lacroix was the principal of Lacroix Law P.C., where she dedicated her law practice to helping immigrants navigate their path to legal status and assisting companies in hiring foreign employees.  

She has worked extensively in the immigration law field and was among the first class of the Immigrant Justice Corps, a fellowship program created by the late Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  

Lacroix is active in addressing implicit bias within the legal profession at her alma mater, Pace University, where she also taught bar preparation classes, legal writing and a course on immigration, race, political ideology and criminal justice.

For two years, she was an attorney at the City Bar Justice Center, where she provided legal assistance, including naturalization, deportation defense, and affirmative applications for juveniles and victims of crime, domestic violence and human trafficking. While there, she conducted implicit bias training courses for large law firms.

Lacroix earned her BA and JD degrees from Pace University in 2011 and 2014 respectively and was named the law school’s Ernestine Bartlett Honoree in 2018.

"I’m really excited to join the Cardozo Community and look forward to fostering and celebrating the diversity on campus," she said.