Poppi Ritacco, JD, LLM is the Administration of Justice and Legal  Studies, Coordinator / Urban Studies for the University Of Pittsburgh.  After studying Philosophy as an undergraduate and earning a J.D. from  Harvard, Poppi worked as a criminal prosecutor in Massachusetts and  Washington, D.C. She also gained experience teaching criminal and  constitutional law to law enforcement as an Attorney Advisor for the  Department of Homeland Security at the Federal Law Enforcement Training  Center (“FLETC”) in Glynco, Georgia. Poppi also has worked in the  domestic violence unit of N.H. Legal Aid. Most recently, Poppi earned a  Criminal Law LL.M. at the University of Buffalo School of Law.

Interview by Lou Kettering, University of Pittsburgh Class of 2020.