Elia Del Carmen

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Carmen is an experienced paralegal with a demonstrated history of providing legal services in: 

• Estate Planning and Asset Protection 
• Business Planning, Formation, and Acquisition 
• Tax Planning 
• Probate and Estate Administration 
• Civil Litigation 
• Criminal Defense 
• Real Estate Investment and Development
• Guardianship 
• Contracts and Transactions 
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death 
• Immigration 
• Divorce and Protective Orders

Carmen is also a student. She earned a B.Sc. in Urban Studies, a minor in Criminal Justice, and the one-of-a-kind Broookings Public Policy Minor from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. She will begin the Criminal Justice Doctoral Program at John Jay as a recipient of the Graduate Center Fellowship and the Provost Enhancement Fellowship.

For four years, Carmen was a research assistant at Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute, two public policy think tanks where she authored and co-authored over two dozen publications that have been downloaded locally and all over the world. Her contributions can be found through the Data Hub, a collaborative initiative that provides web-based access to timely data and information related to the Las Vegas metropolitan statistical area, the State of Nevada, the Mountain West region, and beyond. 

She is a McNair Scholar, a Gilman recipient, and was awarded several institutional awards, including the Kris Drass Undergraduate Research Award in Criminal Justice. As an undergrad, Carmen co-authored an article in the International Journal of Prisoner Health.

She presented at national research conferences, and worked alongside practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders to support research labs on topics including: police use of surveillance technology, Risk-Needs Assessment tools, domestic/intimate partner violence, and the impact of COVID-19 on the incarcerated.

At Brookings, Carmen completed an internship with the Center for Security and Strategy in the Foreign Policy program focused on issues of transnational crime, non-state actors, and public health crises in the world’s most vulnerable economies.

Recently, she's been part of a research study interviewing leaders in Nevada and she co-hosted a podcast about their experiences during the pandemic.

Traveling to remote parts of the world, Carmen is currently producing her own documentary on the intersection between human trafficking and wildlife trafficking.