STAFF
As a Staff Attorney, Daniel Buckley represents wrongfully convicted clients seeking post-conviction relief by investigating and litigating their innocence claims.
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 Staff Attorney/ Case Coordinator, Isabel ("Izzy") Corngold investigates and litigates innocence claims, and provides oversight and strategic direction for intake and screening-stage cases and staff.
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 a Senior Attorney, Christina Cribbs analyzes wrongful conviction claims and develops strategies to best explore and present those claims, often through the lens of litigation.
As Office Manager, Shawna Floyd supports GIP through an array of administrative and executive support tasks and contributes her writing and design skills to our communications activities.
Clare Gilbert is Executive Director of the Georgia Innocence Project. Clare is responsible for overseeing all aspects of GIP’s mission, including working with the board of directors and leading fifteen legal, operations, communications, development, and client services staff. Since she joined GIP as Executive Director in 2016, GIP has helped free and/or exonerate six clients who served a combined 176 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. Clare also serves on the Executive Board of the Innocence Network, a global network of 68 independent innocence organizations, where she chairs the Networks’ Membership Committee and is a member of the Ethics and Best Practices Committee.
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 Accountability Counsel, Meagan Hurley represents people convicted of crimes they did not commit by investigating and litigating their wrongful conviction claims, focusing on those involving official misconduct.
As Communications Manager Blis is responsible for amplifying GIP’s work and message to advance GIP’s mission by communicating with the public and media as well as managing and creating content for all social channels.
As Community Engagement Manager, Christian Stegall manages GIP's volunteer program, speaker engagements, and assists with content creation for the organization. As Development Specialist, Christian oversees the standardization of donor data in GIP's databases and assists with donor stewardship.
As Intake Assistant, Destinee True supports the Intake Manager with processing application-stage cases. Destinee is responsible for ensuring the proper processing, documentation, and filing of all correspondence between applicants and GIP.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EMERITUS DIRECTORS
David. Balser
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
David Sarnat
Robert Sheft