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Bernie Madoff, Jeff Blackburn and me

Friday was my final day on the job as Policy Director at the Innocence Project of Texas, with the end coming because a grant ended prematurely when the JEHT foundation was bankrupted by the Bernie Madoff scandal on Wall Street.(I'm not the only person in in a similar situation thanks to Bernie Madoff: The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition was forced to make layoffs recently for the same reason, with victims including my friend Isela Gutierrez, their juvenile justice advocate, according to an announncement sent out by email last week.)This latest bout of unplanned unemployment is an unfortunate setback, but recent events have placed the loss in perspective and I've still got a lot for which to be grateful.I wanted to take this opportunity to thank IPOT's executive director Natalie Roetzel, their legal director Jeff Blackburn, and the IPOT board for giving me the chance to work with them over the last year or so...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).