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Exoneree, Innocence Maintained
President & CEO, NLADA
April Frazier Camara serves as president & CEO of NLADA. She has been a champion for equal justice for two decades. A graduate of Howard School of Law, she worked as a public defender in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, and at the Public Defender Service (PDS) for the District...
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Executive Director, Michigan Indigent Defense Commission
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President and CEO, Hudson-Webber Foundation
Melanca Clark is president and CEO of Hudson-Webber Foundation, a private foundation dedicated to improving quality of life in Detroit. The foundation’s core mission areas are community and economic development, safe and just communities, the built environment, and arts and cul...
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Managing Director, Neighborhood Defender Service of Detroit
Chantá Parker is the Managing Director of Neighborhood Defender Service of Detroit, a public defense organization known nationally and internationally for its innovative, community-based, holistic public defense practice.
Director, Michigan State Appellate Defender Office
Jonathan Saks, after graduating from law school, worked at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, a model office, as a trial attorney. He represented adults and juveniles on all manner of misdemeanor and felony charges. In 2004, he began working at the State Appellate Defender...
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