Richard Glazer, Esq. has been the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project since its inception in 2009, having served as a member of the working group that turned the idea of an innocence project serving the state of Pennsylvania into a reality. His leadership has been integral to the early success of the Project in furthering its four-fold mission

Mr. Glazer is a founder of the law firm of Cozen O’Connor, one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States, where he served as Regional Managing Partner and Department Chair from 1972 through 2003.  Mr. Glazer served as Senior Advisor to the City of Philadelphia's Managing Director from 2004 to 2006, providing strategic oversight of special projects for Philadelphia's chief administrative officer.  He now serves as the first elected Chair of the newly created Philadelphia Board of Ethics, an independent board focused on ethics and good government.

Mr. Glazer's commitment to public service and the law began with his service as a volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in Malawi, from 1964 to 1966, where he worked on a tuberculosis control project that served as a prototype for similar programs designed to detect and treat infectious diseases, and work towards their eradication.

Mr. Glazer's service has included serving as a board member, from 1987 to 2006, and as board Chair, from 1994 to 1996, for the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, and as a member and leader of the Committee of Seventy, a non-partisan political watchdog organization focusing on election, school, police and judicial reforms, from 1996 to 2006.

Mr. Glazer is a graduate of Tufts University (B.S.) and Temple University School of Law (J.D.). He clerked for the Hon. James H. Gorbey, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1970-72.

Marissa Boyers Bluestine, Esq. joined the Pennsylvania Innocence Project on April 1, 2009 as its first Legal Director.

Ms. Bluestine has worked in both the private and public service – as a litigation associate at Duane Morris and as an Assistant Defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia for over 10 years.  At the Defender Association, Ms. Bluestine tried innumerable cases representing clients accused of crimes where eyewitness testimony was central to the evidence against them.  She was also instrumental in preserving issues for appeal aimed at changing the law within the Commonwealth to allow for the presentation of expert witnesses at trial on eyewitness and false confession issues.  In addition, Ms. Bluestine has been involved in advocating for the expansion of voir dire, more detailed jury instructions and improved lineup procedures to avoid the occurrences of wrongful convictions.  A member of the Board of Directors for the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Ms. Bluestine lectures across the state on issues related to criminal defense.

Ms. Bluestine is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (1989) and a cum laude graduate of Temple University School of Law (1995), where she served as Managing Editor of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review and was a national quarterfinalist in the National Trial Competition.

Charlotte graduated in 2003 from Dartmouth College and then spent two years working as a paralegal at the Federal Defenders in the Southern District of New York.  Charlotte is a 2008 cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and a Senior Editor on the Law Review and the Journal of Law and Social Change.  She also has a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.  After graduating from law school, Charlotte clerked for the Honorable Anita B. Brody in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 2008-2009 and the Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals from 2009-2010.

Shaina Tyler began working with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project on May 31, 2011 as a full-time staff investigator. Ms. Tyler received her BA in Anthropology from San Diego State University in 2005. Following graduation, she went on to complete a year-long certificate program in Forensic Technology. Ms. Tyler began her career at the San Diego County Public Defender’s Office as a Criminal Defense Investigator, where she worked for over three years. After moving to Philadelphia in 2010, she was employed as an Investigator with the Federal Defender’s Office.

William Babcock is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University School of Law. Prior to joining the Pennsylvania Innocence Project in September 2011, as Director of Development and Communications, he was the Community Court Coordinator for the Center City District for 13 years. Mr. Babcock managed the planning phase for the creation of the Court, including raising the funding to renovate the physical plant and staff the Court, and subsequently oversaw the administration of the Court following its opening in 2002.

Mr. Babcock also served for ten years as a special master to the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, monitoring implementation of two consent decrees in Harris v. City of Philadelphia, and spent four years as executive director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society. Prior to moving to Philadelphia, he served as a monitor for the U.S. District Court in Houston in Ruiz v. Estelle, as a mediator for the Center for Dispute Resolution in Washington, as a clinical supervisor at the Antioch School of Law where he earned a masters degree in teaching, and as a staff attorney with the Florida Legal Services Prison Project.

Mr. Babcock’s public service has included one year as a VISTA volunteer, appointments to the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Prison System and the Mayor’s Task Force on Homeless Services, and board membership with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, Pennsylvania Prison Society, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, and National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women. He is also an adjunct professor in Temple University’s Department of Criminal Justice.