Founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, the Innocence Project works to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.

Alicia Cepeda Maule is the Innocence Project’s first Digital Engagement Director. Since 2015 she led the organization in exponential audience growth, revenue, and advocacy including campaigns that helped stop the execution of Pervis Payne and Rodney Reed. Prior, Alicia worked in digital for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and msnbc.com. She has a B.A. in Africana Studies from Brown University.

Barry Scheck is is a co-founder and director of the Innocence Project as well as a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. He has also served as the president of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in the past and has taught legal ethics, forensic science and trial practice to law students, attorneys and judges. Scheck is a recipient of National Trial Lawyers Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also received New York State Bar Association gold medal.

Alexandra was Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Publishing for 20 years and she is now Executive Publisher. She began her career on the art magazine Art Monthly and joined Virago Press in 1978 where she edited the Virago Modern Classics series, becoming Editorial Director in 1984. In 1990 she moved to Hamish Hamilton as Editorial Director and four years later left publishing to become a literary agent during which time her clients included Amanda Foreman, Geoff Dyer, Maggie O’Farrell and Ali Smith. She joined Bloomsbury in 1999. Her list of authors includes Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sheila Hancock, Khaled Hosseini, Celia Imrie, Nicole Krauss, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Anne Michaels, Ann Patchett, Hannah Rothschild, George Saunders, 2017  Man Booker winner for Lincoln in the Bardo.Kamila Shamsie, Patti Smith, Kate Summerscale and Barbara Trapido. Abdulrazak Gurnah Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

Robin Guenther is Principal of Perkins&Will and Senior Advisor to Health Care Without Harm. Her innovative healthcare projects have been published nationally and internationally. 

Healthcare Design magazine named her the “#1 Most Influential Designer in Healthcare” in 2010. In 2012, Fast Company included her as one of the “100 most creative people in business.” She was a 2014 TEDMED speaker.

Robin works at the intersection of healthcare architecture and sustainability policy, participating in a wide range of advocacy initiatives. She is Senior Advisor to Health Care Without Harm, co-coordinated the Green Guide for Health Care, and has served on the LEED for Healthcare committee.

Robin Guenther is Principal of Perkins&Will and Senior Advisor to Health Care Without Harm. Her innovative healthcare projects have been published nationally and internationally. 

Healthcare Design magazine named her the “#1 Most Influential Designer in Healthcare” in 2010. In 2012, Fast Company included her as one of the “100 most creative people in business.” She was a 2014 TEDMED speaker.

Robin works at the intersection of healthcare architecture and sustainability policy, participating in a wide range of advocacy initiatives. She is Senior Advisor to Health Care Without Harm, co-coordinated the Green Guide for Health Care, and has served on the LEED for Healthcare committee. 

Jill Schlesinger, CFP®, is the Emmy and Gracie Award Winning Business Analyst for CBS News, where she covers the economy, markets, investing and anything else with a dollar sign. Jill is a weekly guest on NPR’s “Here and Now” and is the host of the “Jill on Money” podcast and of the nationally syndicated radio show, "Jill on Money". Jill also writes the nationally syndicated column “Jill on Money” for Tribune Media Services.

Annie Wu Henry is a social media and digital strategy expert for progressive organizations and campaigns. She believes that we need on-the-ground organizing, electoral work and the online media to drive progress in society, and has taken a hand in contributing to all three. She was most recently the social media producer for John Fetterman's successful Senate campaign in Pennsylvania. As a strategist, creator and political operative, Annie has been profiled by the New York Times, contributed to some of the largest online advocacy platforms like @feminist, @impact, @shityoushouldcareabout, @intersectionalenvironmentalist, @so.informed, @genzforchange and has had a myriad of content "go viral," being shared by the likes of Rachel Cargle, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Ariana Grande, Yara Shahidi, the Kardashians, Jenners, Olivia Rodrigo + more. Through her personal platform, she engages her own following to inform and activate them about the world and how they can get involved to push for change. She is passionate about progressive politics, press notifications, pop culture, pressed coffee and people who do the right thing.

Sarah Gilbert is the Said Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford. She works on vaccines for many different emerging pathogens, including influenza, Nipah, MERS, Lassa, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, and in 2020, she initiated the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine project. Working with Oxford colleagues she is able to take novel vaccines from design to clinical development, with a particular interest in the rapid transfer of vaccines into manufacturing and first in human trials. She is the Oxford Project Leader for ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 which is now in use in many countries around the world. Read more in her book Vaxxers: A Pioneering Movement in Scientific History

Leslie S. Richards is the general manager and chief executive officer of Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) As the fifth largest public transportation agency in the U.S., SEPTA operates across six transportation modes. Before joining SEPTA, Richards served as the first woman secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT). A advocate for women and diversity in transportation and government, Richards has been recognized for her leadership in the industry and commitment to public service. She earned a bachelor’s  in economics and urban studies from Brown University, and a master’s degree in regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Monica L. Lypson MD, MHPE is the Vice Dean for Education at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and serves as the Rolf H. Scholdager Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.  She previously served as a professor,  and Vice-Chair of Medicine, Division Director of General Internal Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medical and Health Sciences. She has been serving the generalist community as President-elect, President and Past President of the Society of General Internal Medicine. 

After graduating from Saint Ignatius, Monica graduated from Brown University and received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She completed her graduate medical training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Internal Medicine - Primary Care. Subsequently, Monica went on to complete a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at the University of Chicago and a master’s in Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has also trained to be an executive coach; and recently entered the Aspen Health Innovator, a program that is part of the Aspen Institute.

Dr. Russell J. Ledet is a native of Lake Charles, Louisiana. At 18, Ledet enlisted in the U.S. Navy. His first duty station was in the nation’s capital as a ceremonial guardsman. He was awarded multiple Navy Achievement Medals for his leadership. Ledet transitioned to the U.S.N Reserves, while attending Southern University. He also worked as a security guard at Baton Rouge General Hospital. Subsequently, Ledet obtained his Ph.D. in molecular oncology and tumor immunology from the NYU School of Medicine. His scientific work focused on protein modifications in prostate cancer progression.  After NYU, he trained at Tulane School of Medicine and Freeman School of Business. There, Ledet has co-founded The 15 White Coats, a world-renowned organization that helps to propel underrepresented minority students into medicine. He is specializint in child and adolescent psychiatry, with a focus on mental health accessibility for marginalized communities at Indiana University.  Watch his recent film: Bootless II An origin story  youtu.be/YsUVsa7B71E