Prabhalya Pulim is a Senior Assistant District Attorney at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, Hate Crimes Bureau. Her dedication to public service spans over a decade. Ms. Pulim began working at the Kings County District Attorney’s office pro bono in 2010. In 2013, she joined the Kings County District Attorney’s office as a full-time prosecutor, serving the neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick.

In 2015, Ms. Pulim began specializing in hate crimes prosecution within the Civil Rights Bureau. When the Brooklyn District Attorney formed its official Hate Crimes Bureau, she was part of its inaugural class of experienced attorneys. Amongst the many cases she has prosecuted, Ms. Pulim secured a conviction following a jury trial of a defendant who rear-ended another vehicle and repeatedly struck the other motorist with a pistol and handcuffs, causing the victim to suffer numerous injuries that required stitches. That defendant fled the scene and altered his identity to avoid arrest. She also prosecuted a defendant who in 2018, assaulted three white men over the course of three days in three separate Brooklyn neighborhoods while commenting pejoratively about their race. Most recently, she indicted a defendant for an unprovoked hate crime in which the defendant punched a 67-year-old Asian woman multiple times in the face and later made numerous racist and Anti-Asian remarks to police.

In addition to her work as a prosecutor, Ms. Pulim was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP. Ms. Pulim earned her J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 2005.