Emily Baxter

Emily Baxter is the executive director and developer of WAAC. Prior to this, Emily served as the director of advocacy and public policy at the Council on Crime and Justice in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she worked on successful Ban the Box and expungement expansion efforts, and as an assistant public defender at the Regional Native Public Defense Corporation representing indigent members of the Leech Lake and White Earth Bands of Ojibwe charged with crimes in Minnesota State Court. She is a former Fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School’s Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice.

She has served on the boards of the Minnesota Second Chance Coalition and the Minnesota Community Corrections Association. Emily began developing We Are All Criminals through an Archibald Bush Leadership Fellowship in 2012. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Emily travels across the country, meeting and collaborating with stakeholders and changemakers in criminal justice reform. After six years of living in Durham, working with the North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and creating partnerships with the ACLU, Bragtown Community Association, and other organizations, collectives, and community groups, Emily is now back in Minneapolis.