Carmen Guhn-Knight
Tel: (617) 742-4100 Ext. 126
Carmen Guhn-Knight joined the firm as a paralegal in May 2009. She graduated magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 2008, earning a degree in Critical Social Thought. Carmen’s undergraduate education was strengthened through involvement with community organizations that support the rights of working-class and low-income people. She produced an honors thesis that explores social classes, class consciousness, and cross-class alliances in activism.
Before joining the firm, Carmen spent several months traveling and volunteering in Peru and Ecuador. She also spent several months in western Massachusetts volunteering with Pioneer Valley Rebuilders, a not-for-profit construction company that trains and employs incarcerated people.
Carmen believes that the erosion of civil liberties, including the troubling trend of mass incarceration, is one of the greatest injustices our country faces today. She is happy to be working for a firm that seeks to overcome systems of oppression. Carmen intends to pursue a career in criminal justice reform, prison reform, or alternatives to incarceration.
