Thank you for joining us!
Photos by Ellen Rogers Photography
What an incredible evening! Thank you to everyone who joined us at our Voices of the Innocent: Free Us All! storytelling event and 20th anniversary celebration at City Winery Boston on Sept. 12, including people directly impacted who collectively lost 825 years to wrongful imprisonment.
We’re grateful to our courageous storytellers, Ray; Shar’Day; and James, and our supporters and sponsors who help make freedom possible. We had a sell-out crowd and together, we raised more money this year than ever before, surpassing our goal of raising $300K to help free innocent people from prison, prevent future tragedies, and support people after long-term incarceration in the months ahead. This work takes a movement and we couldn’t be more grateful for your continued support!
Funds raised through this event directly support the work of the New England Innocence Project by providing forensic testing, investigation, experts, an experienced legal team, and social service advocates to free innocent people, bring them home to their loved ones, and help them rebuild their lives in freedom. With your help, we can also educate and advocate for systemic change to prevent future tragedies.
Voices of the Innocent 2024 Storytellers
2024 Voices of the Innocent Honoree
This year, as the New England Innocence Project commemorates 20 years of fighting for freedom, we celebrate the partners who have made possible the work to free and support wrongfully convicted people. In recognition of her commitment to wrongfully convicted people and their families, ensuring that they are supported in freedom and compensated for what they have suffered, it is our distinct honor to present the 2024 ARC OF JUSTICE AWARD to:
Senator Patricia Jehlen
Senator Patricia Jehlen (right) with Director of the Exoneree Network, Sean Ellis.
Over the last 20 years, Senator Jehlen has passed landmark legislation to compensate victims of wrongful convictions. Working directly with people who have been exonerated, their loved ones and advocates, Senator Jehlen has tirelessly fought for people who have suffered the trauma of wrongful imprisonment and long-term incarceration.
Senator Jehlen has helped people understand that, when someone is exonerated and freed, they are not automatically given support or assistance from the state that wrongfully convicted them. Instead, exonerees are required to go back to court, fight for compensation, and even when they succeed, they do not always receive an adequate sum for the injustice they have suffered.
Senator Jehlen has been representing people in the state legislature since 1991, first as a State Representative, and since 2005, as a State Senator. She has been an incredible partner to the New England Innocence Project over the last 20 years and has truly bent the arc of the moral universe toward more justice for wrongfully convicted people.
View the Program Book
Please enjoy our virtual Voices of the Innocent: Free Us All! Program Book to learn about our evening’s storytellers,
our Arc of Justice Award honoree, messages from our sponsors, our “200 Challenge,” ways to get involved, and more.
Our 2024 Sponsors
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
Visionary Partners
20th Anniversary Changemakers
Justice Champions
Freedom Contributors
ACLU of Massachusetts
Cooley LLP
Daniel Medwed & Sharissa Jones
Gail Roberts, Ed Feijo & Team
Jason Stone Injury Lawyers
Jones Day
Loevy + Loevy
McDermott Will & Emery
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Sheryl Rosner & David Berman
Sidley Austin LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Thavamani Murugaiah
Wolf Greenfield
Hope Supporters
Anonymous
The Boston Foundation
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
DLA Piper LLP (US)
The Greenfield Family Fund
JoAnn (Roberto Luongo) DeNapoli Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Kirkland & Ellis
Locke Lord LLP
The Marinelli Group @ Morgan Stanley
Mintz
The Morrison Foerster Foundation
Resilience Mode
Rubin and Rudman LLP
Serlin Haley LLP
Strehorn, Ryan & Hoose
Truro Vineyards & South Hollow Spirits
Turco Legal
Vinod & Gita Khilnani
White & Case LLP
For questions or more information about becoming an event sponsor,
please contact Gina Christo at gina@newenglandinnocence.org.
Special thanks to our 20th Anniversary Celebration Host Committee
Amy Banks
Sean Ellis
Anne Harvey Kilburn
Gail Roberts
David M. Siegel
Deena Siegel
Jason Weiner
A Look Back
View our 2023 event video and photo album
Voices of the Innocent: Against All Odds is a special event hosted by the New England Innocence Project and featuring intimate stories from along the journey from those most impacted – from the crushing blow of a wrongful conviction and the struggle to maintain hope, to the long fight for justice and the trials and triumphs of rebuilding in freedom.
Photos by Ellen Rogers Photography
About the New England Innocence Project
The New England Innocence Project fights to correct and prevent wrongful convictions and ensure justice within the criminal legal system for innocent people imprisoned for a crime they did not commit.
We provide free forensic testing, investigation, experts, and an experienced legal team to exonerate the innocent and bring them home to their loved ones. We also use our expertise about wrongful convictions to provide education and advocate for legislative and judicial reforms to prevent future tragedies.