Lara Bazelon is a writer, an attorney, and the director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinical Programs at the University of San Francisco School of Law. She is the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent and worked as a public defender in Los Angeles for seven years. Bazelon’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, Politico, and Slate, where she is a contributing editor and has a long-running series about wrongful conviction cases.