Nina Crimm

Nina J. Crimm recently retired from her twenty-eight years as Professor of Law and the Frank H. Granito, Jr., Faculty Scholar at St. John’s University School of Law, New York. Her chief teaching and scholarship areas concentrated on nonprofit organizations, global philanthropy, and federal tax laws and policies. Nina is the author of numerous law review articles and several books involving taxation and First Amendment issues related to nonprofit organizations and philanthropy. For several years she was “The Quarterly Commentator” for The Exempt Organization Tax Review.

Before entering academia, Nina served as a law clerk for Judge Irene F. Scott of the United States Tax Court and later as an Attorney-Advisor/Senior Attorney in the Office of the Chief Judge of the United States Tax Court. She also practiced with a Washington, D.C. law firm in its section focused on federal tax and nonprofit laws.

For over forty years, Nina has embraced a direct role in nonprofit organizations. Before Nina’s legal career, she was operations and administrative director of a small Philadelphia nonprofit. Subsequently she served as an officer and member of several nonprofit organizations’ boards of directors.

Nina earned her L.L.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, her J.D. from Tulane University School of Law, her M.B.A. from Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business, and her A.B. from Washington University.

As an Access to Justice Fellow, Nina will be working with MA Appleseed Center for Law and Justice to develop a new long-term strategic plan. By working with attorneys, other professionals, and community stakeholders, MA Appleseed identifies social justice issues that have not been fully addressed by either public or private sectors and offers solutions which promote self-sufficiency for Massachusetts communities and residents. Nina will work with MA Appleseed’s board of directors to potentially reframe the organization’s current broad mission and historically fluid and wide-ranging projects to ensure its place in Massachusetts as a leading and value-adding social justice nonprofit.