Yosha Gunasekera

Staff Attorney, Intake Strategic Initiatives at Innocence Project

Yosha Gunasekera is an attorney with experience at organizations such as Innocence Project, The Legal Aid Society, and Women's Re-entry Legal Services. Winner of the University of Pennsylvania Public Policy Challenge, Yosha advocated for an online bail payment system to reduce Philadelphia's pretrial inmate population. Gunasekera has also interned at the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security. Yosha holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal clinic affiliated with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992. The project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.


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