Emily Baxter is the founder and executive director of We Are All Criminals. Prior to this, Emily served as the director of public policy at the Council on Crime and Justice and as an assistant public defender at the Regional Native Public Defense Corporation representing members of the Leech Lake and White Earth Bands of Ojibwe charged with crimes in Minnesota State court. Emily is a former fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School; she began developing We Are All Criminals through an Archibald Bush Leadership Fellowship in 2012. She now lives in Durham, North Carolina, where she serves as the director of the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty in recognition that our legal system will never be just so long as death is on the table.
