Essence Magazine:
By Safire R. Sostre· Updated September 7, 2022
Christina Swarns is a leading capital defense attorney, a nationally recognized criminal legal reform expert and the first Black woman executive director of the Innocence Project — a nonprofit legal organization that works to free innocent people who have been wrongfully convicted.
In her nearly 30-year-long career in criminal justice, she has worked as a public defender for the Legal Aid Society and
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