TEAM
As Pro Bono Coordinating Attorney, Tiffany Bush is responsible for working with pro bono lawyers and legal professionals to assist in the screening stage of GIP cases, in order to evaluate those cases and advance them toward exoneration or other resolution.
As Program Manager, Mike Coszalter manages GIP's intern and volunteer programs. He also helps provide support for GIP's freed clients and works to plan events that raise awareness about wrongful convictions in Georgia.
As Operations Director, Matt Holbrook manages the organization’s finances, operations, IT and human resources.
As Intake Manager, Raylynn Hughes is responsible for assessing and responding to inmate and other requests for GIP’s assistance, and managing cases through our intake screening process.
As Alabama Fellow, Meagan Hurley works to provide access to justice for Alabama’s imprisoned innocent by investigating and evaluating claims of wrongful conviction, and then pairing compelling cases with pro bono attorneys licensed to practice in Alabama.
As a Staff Attorney, Adam McClay investigates and litigates claims of actual innocence on behalf of wrongfully convicted individuals in Georgia, and has the opportunity to work with GIP's interns and volunteers.
As Operations Coordinator, Christian Stegall oversees the standardization of intake-related and donor data in GIP’s databases. Christian works with the Operations Director to ensure GIP’s internal office systems work properly.
As Managing Attorney, Jennifer Whitfield represents individual GIP clients in every stage of their search for post-conviction relief. Jennifer is responsible for investigating innocence claims, petitioning Courts for DNA testing where appropriate, and pursuing every legal and extrajudicial remedy available for the wrongfully convicted.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CURRENT
Kenny Baer - Board Chair
Jake Arbes
David Balser
Jeff Brickman
Karl Douglass
Jimmie Gardner
Sarah Gerwig-Moore
Anna Halsey
Richard Mitchell
Molly Parmer
Page Pate
David Sarnat
Julie Seaman
Robert Sheft
Garret Van de Grift
Amy Weil
EMERITUS
Emmet J. Bondurant
James C. Bonner, Jr.
Bobby Lee Cook
Charles K. Edmondson, Jr.
September Guy, Co-Founder
Jill G. Polster, Co-Founder
Greg Hampikian, Ph.D.
John R. Martin