Ariana Gebauer is a Lecturer and Senior Clinical Supervising Attorney with the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP), a clinical program at Santa Clara University School of Law. Before joining NCIP and Santa Clara University School of Law, Ariana spent the majority of her career as a Public Defender in both Southern California and in Massachusetts where she is also licensed.
Ariana has extensive litigation experience and has spent more time in the courtroom than out of it over the last ten years. Ariana has tried cases from low level misdemeanors up to being on multiple homicide trial teams. She has also done rotations in collaborative courts and specialized in mental health. Ariana now investigates and litigates claims of innocence, teaches courtroom skills to students, and supervises student case work.
Ariana received her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2013.