Executive Director Shawn Armbrust has extensive experience in the innocence
community. As an undergraduate at Northwestern University’s Medill School of
Journalism, Shawn was instrumental in achieving the 1999 death row exoneration
of Anthony Porter. From 1999 to 2001, Shawn was the case coordinator at the
Center on Wrongful Convictions at the Northwestern University School of Law,
screening requests for counsel and coordinating public education events and
development efforts. Through the Center, she also worked with the Commission
appointed by former Illinois Governor George Ryan, who stayed, and ultimately
commuted, all capital sentences in the state. From 2001 to 2004, Shawn was a
Public Interest Law Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she
graduated with many awards and distinctions, including Order of the Coif. As
a Senior Articles and Notes Editor of the American Criminal Law Review, she
wrote her note on the compensation of the wrongfully convicted. Prior to coming
to the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, Shawn clerked for the Honorable Gladys
Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Assistant Director Elizabeth P. Raman comes to the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
with a strong background in criminal defense. Eily graduated magna cum laude
from Harvard College in 1990 and cum laude in 1994 from the Georgetown
University Law Center, where she was Articles Editor of the American Criminal
Law Review and a student attorney in the Georgetown Criminal Justice Clinic.
Following law school, Eily spent two years clerking for the Honorable Edith
Brown Clement of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Louisiana. She then worked for a year as an associate at the District of Columbia
law firm of Crowell & Moring LLP, where she focused on white collar and civil
fraud defense. Prior to coming to the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, Eily spent
five years as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland
in Greenbelt.