Mr. Dunham is Director of the Death Penalty Policy Project and Special Counsel at Phillips Black, a national non-profit legal practice. An internationally recognized expert on capital punishment, he has more than three decades of experience in death penalty policy and practice. From 1994 to 2015, he represented Pennsylvania death-row prisoners at all levels of the Commonwealth’s state and federal courts, including arguing in the U.S. Supreme Court. He was Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Capital Case Resource Center from 1994-1999; Director of Training in the Philadelphia federal defender’s Capital Habeas Unit from 1999-2009; and an assistant federal defender in the capital habeas unit of the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Pennsylvania from 2009-2015. In those roles, he was a member of defense teams that overturned dozens of unconstitutional death sentences and helped to exonerate four wrongfully convicted Pennsylvania death-row prisoners. Mr. Dunham made the transition from practice to policy in March 2015 when he was named Executive Director of the national Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C. After eight years in that role, he returned to Pennsylvania and launched the Death Penalty Policy Project, conducting research and providing information and analysis on death-penalty policies and practices. He is also an adjunct professor at the Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he teaches the Death Penalty Seminar, and is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Witness to Innocence, a national non-profit founded by and serving U.S. death-row exonerees.

Ngozi Ndulue is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Post-Conviction Criminal Defense Clinic, where students represent clients in post-conviction challenges to their criminal convictions. This clinic focuses on the skills necessary for successful post-conviction representation, including writing and research skills, client relationship building, post-conviction investigation, and understanding and integrating racial justice claims. Before joining UDC Law, Professor Ndulue served in several non-profit leadership roles focused on racial justice, the criminal legal system, and indigent defense. Most recently, she was the Innocence Project’s first Special Advisor on Race and Wrongful Conviction. In this role, she provided leadership and expertise on racial justice, equity, bias, and discrimination and its impact on the functioning of the criminal legal system and, particularly, wrongful conviction. Prior to joining the Innocence Project, she held leadership positions at the Death Penalty Information Center, the National NAACP, and the Ohio Justice & Policy Center. She also served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Arizona Capital Habeas Unit from 2008-2011. Professor Ndulue has a law degree from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati.

Erin Barnhart is an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Southern District of Ohio’s Capital Habeas Unit. In her work she represents death row inmates in federal habeas, civil rights litigation, and state clemency matters. Prior to joining the Capital Habeas Unit, Barnhart practiced at Jones Day and clerked for the Hon. Judge Jeffrey Sutton on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She earned her BA in interpersonal communications and graduated first of her class at Ohio University before earning her MA degree in rhetoric also at Ohio University. Barnhart graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame College of Law, where she was an editor of the law review and earned the Farbaugh Prize for High Scholarship in Law. She is a former longtime board member of Alvis House and has served as an instructor in appellate advocacy at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University.

Nathalie Greenfield is an Associate Attorney at Phillips Black, Inc. She specializes in women’s and gender-nonconforming people’s capital cases, a topic on which she publishes, teaches and trains attorneys nationally and internationally. Nathalie represents female clients in state, federal, and international courts, and in this capacity she serves as counsel for Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row. She is part of the team that recently won relief for Ms. Andrew at the U.S. Supreme Court and, more recently, argued Ms. Andrew’s case on remand before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Nathalie is also a researcher at Cornell Law School working on gender bias in women’s capital cases.

Mr. Hunter spent nearly 18 years on Ohio’s death row. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2007 on charges of child endangerment, aggravated murder, and rape in the death of his 3-year-old son, Trustin, who suffered fatal injuries after accidentally falling down the stairs. During habeas proceedings, defense counsel discovered exonerating evidence, and Hunter was granted a motion for a new trial and vacated his capital convictions. To obtain his freedom, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment and was sentenced to time served. Since his release in 2023, Mr. Hunter has been rebuilding and reconnecting with his family and community while graciously sharing his story of wrongful incarceration and insight into our criminal legal system.

Amy Knight is the Director of the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program and is Special Counsel at the nonprofit public interest law practice Phillips Black. She has been representing people who have been sentenced to death for over a decade, in fora ranging from local trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She is a graduate of Vassar College, the University of Arizona’s MFA program in creative writing, and Stanford Law School.