Megan McCracken

Megan McCracken is the Managing Attorney of the New Jersey Innocence Project (NJIP) at Rutgers Law School. Before joining NJIP in 2023, Megan worked as the Eighth Amendment Resource Counsel at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law’s Death Penalty Clinic. She also has worked as an assistant federal defender at the Federal Habeas Corpus Project and the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Community Defender of Philadelphia. In 2015, she received the John Paul Stevens Guiding Hand of Counsel Award from the American Bar Association’s Death Penalty Representation Project. Megan graduated from NYU School of Law and began her legal career as a capital case clerk for Chief Justice Deborah Poritz of the New Jersey Supreme Court.