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Our Fellows
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The Fair Trial Initiative brought its first two law fellows on board in the fall of 2001. Since then, two to four new fellows have been hired to work in North Carolina every year. In 2003, a law fellow was hired to work in Virginia as part of the Richmond Regional Capital Defender Office. The following year, another fellow was hired to work with the Texas Defender Service. Although we are not hiring fellows to work outside of North Carolina at this time, the Fair Trial Initiative will be bringing at least two new fellows into our Durham, NC office in the fall of 2008.
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Anna Arceneaux
A native of Louisiana, Anna attended the University of Texas at Austin. She recently graduated from Columbia Law School, where she was a board member of the Human Rights Law Review and a Chapter Editor of the Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual. During law school, Anna interned at the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in New Orleans, the Bronx Defenders in New York, and the Capital Appellate Project in San Francisco, CA. Anna also assisted human rights attorneys in drafting a petition to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights and a report for the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, both concerning the United States' practice of sentencing juveniles to life without parole. Dedicated to ensuring the protection of human rights both abroad and at home, Anna is thrilled with the opportunity to work on capital trials as a new attorney.
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Tamara Crepet
A native of Farmington, CT, Tamara graduated from Cornell University, cum laude, in 2003. She earned her J.D., cum laude, from Tulane University Law School in 2006 where she was an associate editor on the Journal of International and Comparative Law. After taking classes from inspiring capital and criminal defense attorneys and after witnessing the break down of the criminal justice system in post-Katrina New Orleans, Tamara decided to further her studies in capital and criminal defense at New York University School of Law, where she earned her LL.M. in 2007. Prior to beginning her studies at NYU, Tamara had the great privilege of interning at the Georgia Resource Center where she assisted in the post-conviction representation of persons sentenced to the death. While at NYU, Tamara interned at the Bronx Defenders and participated in a clinic through the Office of the Appellate Defender. Tamara is excited to help persons confronting death sentences and is thrilled to work for FTI.
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Sarah Rackley
Sarah is a North Carolina native. After graduating from Wake Forest University in 2001, Sarah worked for the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights in Mexico City. She later worked for the Foundation for the Study and Application of the Law in El Salvador, documenting detention conditions for juveniles. Sarah attended Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley where she led the student-run California Asylum Representation Clinic. She also had the opportunity to participate in the Death Penalty Clinic, where she worked on an Alabama post-conviction case. During the summers, Sarah interned at the Office of the Public Defender in Richmond, CA and the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. Sarah is excited to be back in North Carolina working to protect the rights of indigent clients.
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Akin Adepoju
After moving from NY to Baltimore, Akin attended University of Maryland. At Roger Williams University School of Law, he focused his studies on criminal justice and constitutional issues. Akin led the school to four national trial and moot court competitions and served as assistant coach for the BLSA trial team. He was a panelist at symposiums focused on felony disenfranchisement and mandatory minimum sentencing laws. His article about the constitutionality of juvenile life without parole sentences was also selected for publication. He has served as a judicial extern, marshaled for a British judge, and worked with the Innocence Project, where he investigated claims of innocence and researched post-conviction relief issues. Akin spent most of his third year of law school as a student attorney in the Criminal Defense Clinic. He is thrilled about working for FTI because it provides the opportunity to seek justice for those too often sentenced to death because of race, poverty, or lack of competent representation.
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Class of 2005
- Sarah Holladay, New York University School of Law, capital appellate defender (NC)
- Deonte' Thomas, University of North Carolina School of Law, private criminal defense firm (NC)
Class of 2004
- Mani Carpenter, Harvard Law School, public defender (NC)
- Melissa Hamilton, University of Texas School of Law, capital defender (TX)
- Emily Marroquin, Duke University School of Law, federal defender (NC)
- Onise Silas, University of Tulsa College of Law, Katrina victims' services (TX)
Class of 2003
- Sondra Broughton, Seattle University School of Law, mitigation investigator (NC)
- Kelley DeAngelus, University of Buffalo Law School, capital appellate defender (NC)
- Elsie Mae Miller, Yale University Law School, capital defender (NC)
- Will Hendricks, New York University School of Law, capital appellate defender (VA)
Class of 2002
- Samy Khalil, University of Texas School of Law, federal defender (TX)
- Jennifer Mellon, Duke University School of Law, legal aid (CT)
- Yvonne Nix, Rutgers Law School, legal aid (NY)
- Terrica Redfield, University of Virginia School of Law, capital appellate defender (GA)
Class of 2001
- Sarah Anthony, University of Virginia School of Law, Fair Trial Initiative (NC)
- Khary Johnson, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, low-income housing for the disabled (CA)
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