Tayonna Ngutter is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.
At Hecker Fink, Tayonna represented a group of New Yorkers, at trial and on appeal, in their successful challenge to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s deliberate use of a false residence in trying to gain access to New York’s 2024 ballot.
Tayonna joined the firm after completing a clerkship with the Honorable Jennifer E. Willis of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She previously worked as a corporate finance associate at an international law firm in New York.
While at law school, Tayonna served as a student attorney at the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute, where she represented indigent clients facing misdemeanor and felony charges in Massachusetts criminal courts. She also clerked for Senator Chris Coons at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, where she drafted memos on a variety of policy issues and conducted research on judicial nominees.
Tayonna received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal and Chair of the Harvard Black Law Students Association's Sponsorship and Development Committee. She also worked as a clinical student at both the Harvard International Human Rights Clinic and Ghana Project Clinic. Tayonna received her B.A. from Columbia University.