Posner Pro Bono Exchange and Pro Bono Society Induction

Description

Chantá Parker is the Special Counsel for New Initiatives at the Innocence Project, where she leads the development of strategies to use the unique lens of innocence to address three problems: racial bias in the criminal justice system; the growing crisis in indigent defense; and how this inflated system forces even the innocent to plead guilty to misdemeanors. Before joining the Innocence Project, Ms. Parker was a Supervising Attorney in the Criminal Defense Practice of the Legal Aid Society's Brooklyn office. Ms. Parker also served as a staff attorney with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and a felony trial attorney with the Orleans Public Defenders. Ms. Parker holds a B.A. from Spelman College and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law.