Celeste Fitzgerald, of Clearwater, Florida, has been an active volunteer for Ohioans To Stop Executions and Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. She formally joined the board in 2020. In 2019 she retired as the Director of Development for Equal Justice USA, where she also served as a member of the senior leadership team. […]
Former OTSE Board Members
Adrian Griffin
Adrian has a Masters of Social Work in Community Organizing and a B.A. in Political Science, English, and Crime & Justice both from the University of Michigan. After experiencing the incarceration of loved ones in her youth, she devoted her college education to becoming actively engaged in issues related to criminal justice system reform, including prisoner reentry, arts […]
Bernard Smith
Bernard A. Smith is a retired federal prosecutor. During his 31-year tenure with the U.S. Department of Justice in Cleveland, he prosecuted and supervised public corruption, organized crime, labor racketeering and appellate cases. Before joining DOJ, he served as a law clerk to a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth […]