Innocence Project: “The Innocence Project’s Post-Conviction Fellowship program is one of the few in the country that trains early career attorneys in post-conviction litigation. For two years, fellows work alongside Innocence Project staff attorneys — conducting rigorous case reinvestigations,  drafting persuasive court filings, and connecting with clients who are seeking to prove their innocence.…

The latest class of Post-conviction Litigation Fellows — attorneys Kayla Martin, Bella Cooper, and Christina Williams — joined last September and will complete their fellowships in Fall 2027….

‘I know that the law is often used as a weapon against communities like the one that I come from but not necessarily as a tool that they have to protect themselves,’ Ms. Williams said. ‘I came into law school wanting to act as a sort of bridge or a translator between the power of the law and the communities it is so often wielded against … if I can get into these spaces and understand the language of how laws are written to harm us, I can translate that back to our communities to help us.’ Ms. Williams attended Harvard Law School, where she participated in her law school’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration, and represented indigent individuals charged with criminal offenses through the Criminal Justice Institute. Christina also interned at the Abolitionist Law Center in Philadelphia, civil rights law firm Brown, Goldstein & Levy in Baltimore, and the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Washington D.C., before joining the Innocence Project.”

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