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Inclusive Juries Project Team

Portait of Emily CowardEmily Coward, IJP Director and Senior Lecturing Fellow
Emily Coward serves as Director of the Inclusive Juries Project within the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility at Duke University School of Law. From 2012 to 2021, Emily was an attorney with the UNC School of Government’s Public Defense Education group, serving as Director and Project Attorney of the NC Racial Equity Network.
Portait of James ColemanProfessor James E. Coleman, Jr., IJP Co-Creator
John S. Bradway Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law
Director, Wrongful Convictions Clinic
Director, Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility
James Coleman is a leading expert on criminal law, legal ethics, negotiation and mediation, capital punishment, and wrongful convictions. Before joining Duke Law he served as chief counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and as a deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Education.
Portait of Kourtney KinchenKourtney Kinchen, IJP Research Assistant and Duke Law 3L

Sponsoring Center

Duke Law Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility

Inclusive Juries Project Funders

Duke University Office of the Provost

Z Smith Reynolds Foundation

IJP Advisory Network Members

Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods
Berkeley Law Professor Elisabeth Semel
Campaign Zero Research & Campaign Manager Elijah Salisbury
Campaign Zero Managing Director, Policy & Campaigns Cassie Ippaso
City University of New York Law Professor Nina Chernoff
King County Dept. Public Defense Supervising Attorney Michael Schueler
Michigan State Law Professor Catherine Grosso
Wake Forest University Law Professor Ronald Wright
William & Mary Law Professor Kami Chavis

Juries@Duke

Patrick Bayer, Gilhuly Family Distinguished Professor in Economics, Duke University
Douglas Alan Brook, Visiting Professor of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University