PURSUING JUSTICE

Segment #3: "Healing Justice's mission, programs and goals"

Segment # 2: "The Impact of Wrongful Conviction on All and the Birth of Healing Justice

Jennifer Thompson is the founder of Healing Justice and a crime survivor whose case resulted in a wrongful conviction and exoneration. Bio: Katie Monroe is the Executive Director of Healing Justice and is the family member of someone who was wrongly convicted. Main Topic: From Harm to Healing with Healing Justice Segment #1: "Crime Victim Experiences with Wrongful Conviction"

Active with POPS the club since age 14. She is now 19. Dad is incarcerated. Katherine attends University now hoping to be a probation officer or lawyer.

Karen graduates in 2 weeks from UCI (University of California at Irvine)and hopes to go to Law School. She was raised by a single mom as her dad is serving 2 life sentences. She is now the communications intern with POPS the club.

Steven's parents have both been in prison. His dad has been out for 10 years. He has made a documentary as part of his participation with "Echoes of Incarceration" called: "Re-imagining Justice".

His dad was incarcerated when he was 3 months old. Met him as a young adult and made a documentary about his first visit with his father at Sing Sing. He is active with "Echoes of Incarceration"--a support group for kids with parents behind bars. He is now 26 years old.

Anthony Scott joined IPF in 2006 to direct the social services section. He has expertise working with both prisoners and ex-offenders, having provided psychotherapy at House Of Hope and Broward Outreach Center. Mr. Scott is also a founding member of the National Exoneree Support Committee, networking with and training innocence project workers throughout the United States. He is a licensed clinica...

Derrick was accused of a crime he did not commit in 1992.He spent 18 years in prison as a result. Thanks to IPF, he was exonerated in 2011.

former member of Board of Directors of Innocence Project of FL

Lawyer with Shutts and Bowen LLP Sarasota, FL Graduate of Duke University and the University of Florida College of Law former President of the Florida Bar Foundation; past president of Sarasota County Bar Association. Member of the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project of Florida.

Jeff Miller is retired from being an accountant with Fortune 500 Companies. Becky Miller is retired from teaching H.S. English and from teaching writing to students on the college level.

ormer member of Board of Directors of the Innocence Project of Florida Retired teacher of children with dyslexia; Graduate of Montclair State University with M.A. in Learning Disabilities. Active with IPF since 2009. Mentor of at-risk students since 2000. Teacher at OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) in Sarasota.

Danie is a science teacher at the Middle School level. She has known Dean for 30 years as they met while they were still in high school. Topic: She will give her perspective on what it is like to love someone who is locked up. She will share her views of the justice system speaking from her own experience.

Dean was accused of murder in 1989. He spent the next 30 years in prison for a crime done by his older brother, Scott. Dean was proven innocent by IPF in January 2019.

Executive Director of Innocence Project of Florida since 2006. President of the Worldwide Innocence Network. Teaches law at FSU School of Law. Graduate of FSU College of Law. Topic: Overview of IPF. Will discuss details of the case of Dean McKee who Seth represented. Dean spent 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.