Biography

<p><i>Emily Maw worked with the Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) for 16 and a half years. She was director from 2005 - 2018 and then served as senior counsel from 2018-2019. Prior to that she was a staff attorney for two years. IPNO represents innocent prisoners serving life sentences in Louisiana and Mississippi. She represented or supervised the representation of 31 of the 36 prisoners IPNO freed or exonerated, who served over 700 years in prison between them. Before joining IPNO, Emily spent four years working on capital cases in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas at the then-Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center and the Texas Defender Service.. She has served on the Board of Directors of The Innocence Network, the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Louisiana Justice Coalition and Resurrection After Exoneration, the first exoneree-led, prisoner re-entry program in the country. Emily was a Petra Foundation Fellow, a Phillips Brooks House Fellow at Harvard College and was named Edinburgh University’s Alumnus of the Year in 2007. Emily </i><i>received her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh and her Juris Doctor from Tulane Law School. </i></p>