OAD Staff
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Risa Gerson | Director of Reinvestigation Project
Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law (2010-present); Director of the Reinvestigation Project, Office of the Appellate Defender (2009-present); Supervising Attorney, Office of the Appellate Defender (1996-present); Adjunct Professor of Legal Reasoning, Writing, and Research, New York Law School (2009-2010); Administrative Law Judge, New York City Environmental Control Board and Department of Finance (1995-1996); Associate Appellate Counsel, Criminal Appeals Bureau, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY (1989-1994); Staff Attorney, Criminal Defense Division, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY (1988); Staff Attorney, Parole Revocation Defense Unit, The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY (1984-1987). Contributing Author, Dying Twice: Conditions on New York's Death Row, Pace Law Review (Spring 2002).
Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 1984; Barnard College, B.A., 1979.