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Miriam Gohara is Resource Counsel for the Federal Capital Habeas Project, where she assists lawyers representing clients who have been death-sentenced
by the United States. From 2000-2006 Miriam was an attorney in the Criminal Justice Project at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF).
At LDF, Miriam’s areas of concentration included capital punishment and right-to-counsel litigation. She co-counseled two successful death penalty appeals in
the United States Supreme Court: Banks v. Dretke (2004); and House v. Bell (2006). She also authored and co-authored several amicus briefs
on racial discrimination in jury selection and in the application of the death penalty in the United States Supreme Court, federal circuit courts and state courts.
At LDF, Miriam also coordinated a project designed to bring about a statewide public defender system in Mississippi. She received her B.A. in 1994 from Columbia
and her J.D. in 1997 from Harvard Law School. After law school, she clerked for Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr. on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She then accepted
a two-year position as a National Association for Public Interest Law fellow at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, where she represented criminal
defendants in collateral civil cases arising from their arrests as well as some criminal cases. In 2000, Miriam was selected as a Coro Foundation Leadership New York
Fellow. From 2003-2005, she was appointed to the adjunct faculty of St. John’s University School of Law. She also serves on the board of the Neighborhood
Defender Service of Harlem. In 2003, Miriam was awarded a Wasserstein Fellowship from Harvard Law School.
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