Dolly is an adjunct faculty professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she currently co-teaches Prison Law & Litigation with Jules Lobel. She also serves as Court Watch Project Manager at the Abolitionist Law Center. Dolly has practiced law at the Abolitionist Law Center since 2020, when she was hired as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. Dolly received her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020, where she was the recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship and the Derrick A. Bell Scholarship in Law and Social Justice. While in law school, Dolly authored A Lifetime for Someone Else’s Crime: The Cruelty of Pennsylvania’s Felony Murder Doctrine in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court cited in the landmark Commonwealth v. Derek Lee decision ending mandatory life-without-parole sentencing for felony murder in Pennsylvania.
Dolly has authored several publications while at ALC, including A Call for Greater Compassion, Probation in Allegheny County, Death-Making Institutions, and Apartheid Policing in Pittsburgh. Dolly’s primary areas of focus are probation and pre-trial incarceration, but her docket has also included compassionate release, solitary confinement, excessive force, and ADA violations.
