About me
Kristen Samuels has been an investigator since August 2014 at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, GA. She investigates death penalty cases and long-term sentences in Alabama and Georgia at all stages of litigation including pre-trial and post-conviction. Kristen has been a member of the National Alliance for Sentencing Advocates and Mitigation Specialists since 2017. She has completed numerous national multi-day training programs such as the 2015 Capital Mitigation Skills Workshop in Kansas City, Missouri; the 2016 Death Penalty College in Santa Clara, California; and the 2017 NAACP Legal Defense Capital Punishment Conference (Airlie) in Virginia. In 2021, Kristen established and implemented SCHR’s Training Program to foster and advance equity in training opportunities and staff development. Kristen has lived in Jamaica, Arizona, New York, and Los Angeles, but Atlanta became home after attending Spelman College.
