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Mississippi , and litigates cases of wrongful conviction
in that state while directing operations for the rest
of the organization. Before she began at IPNO, Emily worked
with the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center for several
years as an investigator for capital cases in Louisiana
, Mississippi , and Texas. She also worked at the Texas
Defender Service. Emily received her LL.B. from the University
of Edinburgh in 1999 and her J.D. from Tulane Law School
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David Park is Deputy Director and the staff
attorney responsible for non-DNA cases within the state
of Louisiana. David received his B.A. from Boston University
in 1994 and his J.D. from Tulane Law School in 2001.
He joined IPNO immediately upon graduation.
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| Richard Davis is originally
from Digswell in Hertfordshire, England. He earned an
LL.B. from the University of Sheffield in 2004 before
coming to New Orleans for a four-month internship in January
2005. He has remained with IPNO since. Richard is currently
employed as a law clerk and case manager. He assists with
all aspects of the organization's case work, including
legal research, writing and investigation. He is a passionate
fan of FC Wimbledon-Birmingham United!!
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Echoing Green Fellow,
John Thompson, is the founder and director of the
fledgling non-profit, Resurrection After Exoneration (RAE).
John is from New Orleans and spent 18 years wrongly imprisoned
(14 on death row) for a crime he did not commit because
the prosecutors in his case deliberately withheld evidence
of his innocence. When he was exonerated in 2003, John
quickly saw that fellow exonerees coming home from prison
were struggling and that they needed a stronger support
network than many had if they were to succeed and be real
advocates for change in the criminal justice system. In
response to this, he founded RAE, the first exoneree run
re-entry initiative in the country. Echoing Green invested
in John’s vision and awarded him a two-year fellowship
as seed money to start RAE. IPNO is supporting RAE as
it becomes an independent organization. Click
here for a profile of John Thompson. For RAE’s website,
see http://www.r-a-e.org/
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| Paul Killebrew originally
served as an intern at Innocence Project New Orleans in
the summer of 2005. During law school, Paul also did internships
with the United States Attorney's Office and Debevoise
& Plimpton LLP in New York, and after graduating from
New York University School of Law in 2007, he clerked
for a federal district court judge in his hometown of
Nashville, Tennessee. Paul officially joined the IPNO
staff in September 2008, and he is currently awaiting
admission to the Louisiana State Bar.
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Kristin Wenstrom received her Bachelor's degree
from New York University in 2002 and her J.D. from Tulane
Law School in 2008. She was admitted to the Louisiana
State Bar in October 2008. Kristin began working at
IPNO as an intern in June 2006 and officially joined
the ranks as an Equal Justice Works Fellow in September
of 2008. Her fellowship entails representing wrongly
convicted youth sentenced to life without parole in
Louisiana, and using their cases and stories to reform
policy that that allows for these injustices to occur.
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Brandon Early, a New Orleanian, began his matriculation
at Morehouse College and graduated from Loyola New Orleans
with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and Biology.
He has a background in community based participatory
research, social policy research and filmmaking. Ironically,
it was an experience working on location with a feature
film in Angola Prison that confirmed his intent to devote
himself to the wrongfully convicted as an investigator
with Innocence Project New Orleans.
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Tom Lowenstein has been a magazine editor, political
organizer, teacher, and investigative journalist. His
writing has appeared in several local and national magazines.
He joined IPNO in August of 2008.
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Jacci Schiessl is from Wisconsin. She received
her B.S. in Communication from the University of Wisconsin
- Stevens Point, in 2003. Since then she has done advocacy
work throughout the U.S. and abroad. She is IPNO's project
manager.
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Shelagh O'Donnell graduated from Boston College
in 2008 with a B.A. in Political Science. During her
time at BC, Shelagh was active with the West End House
Big Brother, Big Sister mentoring program and as an
ESL Teacher. She began working as the case review manager
at IPNO in August 2008 as part of the Jesuit Volunteer
Corps program.
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Christo Raines, a graduate of Saint Mary's College
of California in the Bay area, joined IPNO in August
2008 as part of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps program and
works as the exoneree advocate. He assists with the
transition and specific needs and challenges the exonerees
face as they reintegrate into society. Christo gained
experience as an advocate while working as a camp counselor
for children afflicted with Type-1 diabetes.
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Office Manager Carolyn Matthews is responsible
for the administrative side of IPNO, which includes
responding to Summer Internship applicants. She received
her degree in Psychology at Texas Southern University,
in Houston, Texas. Carolyn works with a number of Christian-based
programs and she is happy to be on board at IPNO!
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