Allison was born and raised in rural Southwest Ohio. She attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Creative Writing with a focus in fiction. In 2012, she moved to Cincinnati and became the first director of Communications and Development for Ohioans to Stop Executions. Though she explored […]
Former OTSE Board Members
Jim and Nancy Petro
Jim Petro is a life-long Ohio civil servant: city councilman, county commissioner, state legislator, state Auditor, state Attorney General, and Chancellor of the Board of Regents. He served on the House Judiciary Subcommittee that crafted our death penalty statute in 1981. He advocated for passage of the bill then. Later, as Attorney General from 2003 […]
Jennifer A. Pryor, Director of Organizing and Community Outreach
Jennifer A. Pryor is passionate about judicial reform in all of its parts. As a grassroots community organizer, she has been invited into the personal trauma of many community members and is committed to playing a role in eliminating systematic trauma. Jennifer is a mother of one son and a very involved auntie to twenty, twelve […]