Speaking Engagements


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Social Justice Symposium, April, 2023, Social Justice Week at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, “Wrongful Convictions in the Criminal Legal System.” (featured panelist)

New Jersey Institute of Technology, March, 2023, Women Designing the Future Conference: “Artificial Intelligence / Real Human Lives: Making Technology Work for All of Us.” (featured panelist)

Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic’s Symposium on Wrongful Conviction, March, 2023, ”Wrongful Convictions: Primary Causes & Legislative Reforms,” March, 2022. (featured panelist)

American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York Conference: “Designing for Post-Incarceration,” December, 2022. (featured panelist)

WNYC @ The Greene Space, December, 2022, Twenty Years Since Exoneration: Discussion with Members of the Central Park “Exonerated 5.” (moderator)

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, November, 2022, “Explorations of Your Future Self in Criminal Justice Reform.” (featured panelist)

Oregon Judicial Conference, October, 2022, “Criminal Discovery and Wrongful Conviction.” (featured panelist)

New York City Bar Association, panel regarding policy reforms to safeguard against juvenile false confessions, March, 2022 (featured panelist)

17th Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, panelist, “State(s) of Reform,” March, 2022 (featured panelist)

American University Law School seminar: “The Art of Advocacy,” February, 2022 (featured guest)

University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Criminal Justice Summit: Perspectives on Wrongful Conviction & Policy Solutions, January, 2022 (featured panelist)

Utah School of Law’s Advocacy Seminar, January, 2022 (featured guest)

Quattrone Center for the Administration of Justice, November, 2021: “Interrogating Without Coercion.” (featured panelist)

American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Fall Conference, September, 2020: “Access to Justice: Just Mercy.” (featured panelist with Judge Michael Donnelly of the Ohio Supreme Court; and Darrell Jackson, professor of law and director of the Prosecution Assistance Program at the University of Wyoming.)

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ 19th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference, August, 2020: “Policing in America: Policing the Police.” (featured panelist)

American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference, March, 2019: Delivered Plenary Address: “Prosecutorial Misconduct: Oversight & Accountability in the Empire State.”

Ohio Summit on Wrongful Convictions, University of Cincinnati College of Law, October, 2018: “Why Does it Happen?” (featured panelist with Chief William Brooks of the Norwood (MA) Police Dept., Carmen Naso, Sr. Instructor in Law, Case Western Reserve University College of Law, and Russell Tye, Director, Conviction Integrity Unit, Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.)

Conversations with the Innocence Project, October, 2018: “Prosecutorial Power & Wrongful Convictions,” (moderated panel with Innocence Project Senior Attorney Nina Morrison, Exoneree and Advocate Jabbar Collins, Professor of Law at American University Cynthia E. Jones, and ProPublica reporter Joaquin Sapien.)

West Virginia Public Defender Services Annual Conference, June, 2018: “Eyewitness Misidentification: Science-Based Litigation Strategies and Policy,” (featured panelist with Alexis Agathocleous, Innocence Project’s Strategic Litigation Senior Staff Attorney.)

SXSW Conference, Austin, TX, March, 2018: “Criminal Justice Reform at a Crossroads.” (featured panelist with Lauren Krisai (Justice Action Network), Molly Gill (FAMM) and Scott Shackford (Reason).

Witness to Innocence Annual Conference on Death Penalty Abolition, Tampa Florida, April, 2017: “Where Do We Go From Here?: Advocacy, Successes and Challenges to Death Penalty Abolition.” (featured panelist with Russell Neufeld, Witness to Innocence; Henderson Hill, Eighth Amendment Project; Mark Elliott, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty; Kwame Ajamu, Exoneree and Rob Warden, Witness to Innocence.)

The National Symposium for Eyewitness Identification, Yale University, June 2016: served on conference planning committee and as a moderator for panel: “Promising Policies and Practices: Police, Prosecution, Legislative and Defense Perspectives.”

University of Washington School of Law, Symposium on Eyewitness Identification Science and Law Enforcement Practice, November, 2013: “The Innocence Perspective.” (featured panelist)

OCU School of Law in conjunction with the Oklahoma Bar Association’s annual meeting, Oklahoma City, OK, November, 2011: Keynote speech: “Leading the Way: OCU Law’s Role in Addressing Wrongful Convictions in Oklahoma.”

National Institute of Justice’s Postconviction DNA Symposium, Washington D.C., January, 2011: “Evidence Location, Retention and Preservation.” (moderator)

Texas Forensic Science Seminar, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit, Austin, TX, October, 2010: “Eyewitness Identifications and Confessions.” (featured presenter)