Yosha Gunasekera is a first-generation Sri Lankan-American who thinks a lot about murder. She is an attorney at the Innocence Project where she represents individuals wrongfully convicted of serious crimes. Yosha began writing in jail waiting rooms and in between court appearances as a Manhattan public defender who represented New Yorkers accused of crimes ranging from possession of a boa constrictor to attempted murder. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University where she is teaching a course focused on wrongful convictions and exonerations, and was previously a Blume Public Interest Leader in Residence at Georgetown Law. Yosha has written on the criminal legal system for publications like Marie Claire and Teen Vogue and has appeared as a TV commentator on networks like the BBC and Law and Crime. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of North Carolina. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and three (not yet murdered) plants.