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Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum PodcastsFreeing Wrongly Convicted Alaskans and Preventing Future Injustice - Jory Knott, Executive Director, Alaska Innocence ProjectSend us a textJory Knott is the Executive Director of the Alaska Innocence Project. A lifelong Alaskan, he earned an interdisciplinary degree in art and music at UAA, then moved to Oregon, where he composed music, wrote grants for creative projects, and apprenticed in stone masonry. He became operations manager for a masonry company with stone cutting operations and rock quarries across the Pacific Northwest. In 2009, he moved back to Alaska. He changed his career trajectory, teaching music and art to adults with special needs while attending UAA, pursuing legal studies with a minor in civil...
2025-12-211h 23
Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum PodcastsFighting for the Wrongly Incarcerated—Precedents, Policies, and Prevention - Jory Knott, Executive Director, Alaska Innocence ProjectSend us a textJory Knott is the Executive Director of the Alaska Innocence Project. A lifelong Alaskan, he earned an interdisciplinary degree in art and music at UAA, then moved to Oregon, where he composed music, wrote grants for creative projects, and apprenticed in stone masonry. He became the operations manager for a masonry company with stone-cutting operations and rock quarries across the Pacific Northwest. In 2009, he moved back to Alaska. He changed his career trajectory, teaching music and art to adults with special needs while attending UAA and pursuing legal studies with a...
2024-12-081h 18
Chatter MarksEP 87 Exonerating Alaskans with Jory KnottJory Knott is the Executive Director of the Alaska Innocence Project. The Alaska Innocence Project started in 2008 under the direction of Bill Oberly, and it took seven years for them to get their first exoneration — it was the Fairbanks Four case, in which four Alaska Native men were wrongly convicted of murder and subsequently spent 18 years in prison. Jory says that that case involved a number of factors that led to a wrongful conviction, including eyewitness misidentification, incentivized witnesses, confirmation bias, racial animus, misconduct, and bad science. This was the case that got Jory interested in working with the In...
2024-06-011h 02
Crude ConversationsEP 152 Exonerating Alaskans with Jory KnottIn this one, Cody talks to Jory Knott. He’s the Executive Director of the Alaska Innocence Project. The Alaska Innocence Project started in 2008 under the direction of Bill Oberly, and it took seven years for them to get their first exoneration — it was the Fairbanks Four case, in which four Alaska Native men were wrongly convicted of murder and subsequently spent 18 years in prison. Jory says that case involved a number of factors that led to a wrongful conviction, including eyewitness misidentification, incentivized witnesses, confirmation bias, racial animus, misconduct, and bad science. This was the case that got Jory...
2024-05-201h 01