Marecca joined the Legal Rights Center in 2024 with nearly fifteen years of experience in public/community-based criminal defense and social movement legal support in a variety of roles and jurisdictions.

She worked first as a defense investigator on behalf of kids accused of crimes in New Orleans, is a 2019 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, and spent the past five years as a trial attorney with the Hennepin County Public Defender, defending cases from petty misdemeanor to serious felony.

Her focus overall has been on interjecting early in the criminal legal process, and, with the LRC, she works to expand access to counsel right at arrest for all those who are policed and prosecuted – the vast majority of whom are unable to afford private attorneys.