Ian has dedicated his legal career to criminal justice reform and appellate litigation. Ian currently serves as Justice System Reform Counsel with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. 

Previously, Ian served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office’s Law Division-Appeals Unit, where he handled a large volume of Commonwealth responses to criminal appeals before Pennsylvania’s Superior and Supreme Courts.  Ian has also served as an Associate Attorney at Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford P.C., where he represented clients in a variety of trial and appellate litigation matters within Pennsylvania state and federal courts, including transportation litigation, employment liability, and asbestos matters. He is also an American Constitution Society Next Generation Leader. 

In May 2020, Ian received his J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law. He first developed his passion for appellate advocacy in law school by serving on the Moot Court Board and through the American Constitution Society. Ian interned for a number of state and federal judges, including U.S. Magistrate Judge Joe Webster of the United States Middle District of North Carolina, Judge Wanda G. Bryant of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and Associate Justice Anita Earls of the North Carolina Supreme Court. In 2017, Ian received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Ian has published three law journal articles: “Justice in Black: Judge William H. Hastie’s and Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Fight for an Equalitarian Legal Order” and “Crimes Against Humanity, Apartheid: Its History and the Global Response” in the North Carolina Central Law Journal volume 43, Issue 1 (2020) and volume 44, Issue 2 (2022), respectively and “The Ratification of the Rome Statute: The Next Step in Establishing an American Equalitarian Legal Order” in the Journal of International Criminal Law, volume 4, Issue 2 (2023).