The Tennessee Innocence Project has an Advisory Council of 19 community members, who support the organization in a variety of ways. Advisory Council Member Amy Mohan of Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison joined the Advisory Council in 2019. Learn more about Amy and her involvement.

Board Treasurer Joey Fuson joined the Tennessee Innocence Project Board of Directors to use his skills to serve the community. In criminal practice, “You often find yourself in the trenches, I wanted to step out and do something for the greater good,” he explained.

Yasmine (pronounced Yes-meen) Mukahal was initially drawn into the world of wrongful convictions the same way many millennials in America were: through the hit podcast, Serial. Yasmine is TIP's newest Board Member and serves as Director of Campus Recruiting for HCA Healthcare.

“The more research we did on the subject, we learned how many people are serving time for crimes they didn’t commit,” Board Member Amy Richards said. “We have an incredible justice system, but it isn’t perfect.”

Labor and employment law attorney Garry Ferraris has always been focused on making his community and state a more equitable place.

Andrea Hayduk says she doesn’t have a story for how she ended up in law. But the passion in her voice as she describes wrongs in the criminal justice system shows she ended up in the right place.

A schoolteacher who started Vanderbilt Law at age 28, Brad MacLean says his journey to criminal post-conviction defense and policy reform was a “calling.”