Noa Offman

Biography

Noa J. Offman, based in Washington, D.C., is a senior at Georgetown University majoring in Justice and Peace Studies. She is dedicated to depoliticizing criminal legal reform by reframing it as a global dialogue, challenging the narrow, domestic lens often applied to justice systems. While studying the Nordic prison model in Denmark, she engaged with guards and formerly incarcerated people. These experiences informed her co-moderation of a comparative criminology panel during her internship at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. There, she contributed to two prison investigations, corresponded with hundreds of incarcerated individuals, and developed and disseminated resources on compassionate release, parole, and the grievance process. She has also worked to free juvenile lifers and correct wrongful conviction cases at two law firms. On campus, Noa co-founded Restorative Georgetown, championing the integration of restorative practices into student conduct policies, and served as president of the Sexual Assault Peer Educators. At Oxford, she hopes to pursue an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice.