Lisa M. Kavanaugh is the Director of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) Innocence Program, a unit of the Massachusetts statewide public defender agency. A career public defender, she is actively involved in litigating cases, and served as lead or co-counsel in overturning numerous wrongful convictions. She is also actively involved in developing statewide training programs on flawed forensic evidence and other leading causes of wrongful convictions, as well as skills-based trainings for post-conviction lawyers. She is a 1996 graduate of Yale University and a 2000 graduate of Harvard Law School. A Trustee of the New England Innocence Project, she also presently serves as a member of the Massachusetts Forensic Science Oversight Board and as Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Task Force on Conviction Integrity.