Cristina Bordé serves as Resource Counsel for the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project assisting federal capital trial teams. She is also currently lead counsel for the Latinx Initiative of the Illinois Innocence Project and is working on expert development with the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences. Ms. Bordé has represented death row inmates on appeal and in post conviction for over 20 years. Ms. Bordé was lead counsel in the case of Vicente Benavides, a Mexican national who was exonerated and released in 2018, after spending 25 years on death row in California. From 2016 to 2019, Ms. Bordé served as a Supervising Attorney at the Wisconsin Innocence Project where she was the Founder and Director of the Wisconsin Latino Exoneration Program.