Kadian A. Crawford has always been guided by an instinct towards justice. Kadian was born in May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica to a father who was a welder and a mother, a teacher who left her then eleven-month-old daughter and two-and-a-half-year-old son to pursue the “American Dream” on behalf of her family. Kadian emigrated to Houston, TX at the age of six and a half and could tell, even at that young age, when people were being treated unfairly.

At seventeen years old, Kadian moved to Massachusetts to attend Wellesley College where they would eventually graduate with a double major in Medieval Renaissance Studies and English. Had they been allowed to have a double major and a minor, they would have also minored in Theatre Studies.

Advocating for others comes naturally to Kadian and is evident in their later life choices. Prior to law school, Kadian worked in the biopharmaceutical industry drafting and negotiating contracts in support of clinical trials to find new therapies for various conditions, including rare diseases. During law school, Kadian was an intern and eventually a fellow with their law school’s Human Rights Clinic and Wage Theft Advocacy Program.

Additionally, Kadian worked with their law school’s Center for Ethics and Public Service as a Research Assistant in support of a class action litigation against the City of Miami to remediate parks and properties contaminated by Old Smokey Incinerator ash, compensate damaged homeowners and injured residents, and establish a health registry for individual and community medical monitoring in the segregated village of Coconut Grove in South Florida.

In law school, Kadian was the recipient of the Kozyak Minority Foundation Scholarship; the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association Scholarship; and the Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton Scholarship in the Litigation Skills Program.

Since law school, Kadian clerked for the Honorable Migna Sanchez-Llorens and the Honorable Jennifer D. Bailey (retired) in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida and appeared Pro Hac Vice as third chair in an employment discrimination case.

In their spare time, Kadian likes to read, write creatively, and go for long walks with their senior dog, among other things.