Event
Northern California Innocence Project speaker panel
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Free. Ferry tickets are required to visit Alcatraz Island. Your island ticket is sufficient for admission. Contact Oliver Goodman if you'd like to arrange for free tickets to Alcatraz for any groups that have been impacted by the criminal legal system.Location: LAT/LONG: 37.826841, -122.423117
The event will take place in the Dining Hall of the Cell House.
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1-2:30 pm in the Alcatraz Cellhouse Dining Hall
Description
Join us for a panel discussion with the Northern California Innocence Project's Obie Anthony and Linda Starr.
The Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) is a non-profit clinical program of Santa Clara University School of Law. NCIP’s mission is to promote a fair, effective, and compassionate criminal justice system and protect the rights of the innocent. They challenge wrongful convictions on every front by exonerating the innocent, educating future attorneys, and reforming criminal justice policy.
OBIE ANTHONY
Obie Anthony was just 19 years old when he was sentenced to life without parole for a murder he did not commit. When he was released 17 years later, Obie didn’t even have any identification – no social security card or birth certificate. After almost two decades in prison, he didn’t know what to write on his resume, how to land a job, or even how to use a cell phone. He had to learn to establish his life again.
Obie soon dedicated himself to supporting other exonerees. In 2016, he founded Exonerated Nation, which is committed to transforming the experiences of exonerees after release and building a community that can provide safety, stability, and healing to wrongfully convicted Californians. Obie was instrumental in the passage of California Assembly Bill 672 (nicknamed “Obie’s Law”), which provides transitional services to exonerees, including housing assistance, job training, and education stipends.
Obie regularly speaks about exoneration and incarceration, and is a recipient of numerous awards including the 2017 Rockwood Leadership Institute Returning Citizens Fellowship and the 2012 NCIP Freedom Award.
LINDA STARR
Linda Starr is the co-founder of the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) at Santa Clara University School of Law. She has more than 25 years experience as an attorney both in California and New York. Starr clerked for the California Court of Appeal, worked as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, NY, and has worked as a private practitioner in post-conviction matters at all levels of the state and federal courts. While at NCIP, Starr oversaw all aspects of investigation and litigation into wrongful conviction in state and federal courts, and developed and taught Innocence Project and Advanced Innocence Project courses.
Linda has served of counsel to NCIP for the past year and will retire on July 1, 2024. She was recently awarded Professor Emerita status at Santa Clara Law.
This program is in partnership with Nothern California Innocence Project, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the National Park Service of Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
For more information or information on other community outreach initiatives (including ranger-led programs), please contact park ranger Oliver Goodman (oliver_goodman@nps.gov). If you are a community leader working with the formerly incarcerated community and you would like to bring a group to an upcoming program in the series, please email Oliver. If you have any accessibility needs such as ASL translation, please contact goga_accessibility@nps.gov at least 5 days in advance.
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