Emily Prokesch

Emily Prokesch is a Forensic Consultant & Legal Strategist at E|P Forensics and currently serves as the Chair of the Legal Task Group to the Organization of Scientific Area Committees under NIST as well as on the pattern matching planning committee for the National Forensic College, where she is faculty.  Emily trains nationally on forensic evidence and Artificial Intelligence and collaborates on policy efforts to prevent the misuse of science and technology in the criminal legal system.

Prior to founding E|P Forensics, Emily was the inaugural Team Leader of the New York State Defender Association’s Discovery and Forensic Support Unit; a First Chair Trial Attorney at the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender in Atlanta, GA; and the Forensic Practice Director and member of the Homicide Practice Group at The Bronx Defenders, where she represented indigent clients facing criminal charges, supervised the Forensic Practice Group, and oversaw forensic litigation and training.  In 2019-2020, Emily was lead counsel in the Frye litigation People v. Ross/A.M., which was the first admissibility hearing held in New York State courts on firearms and toolmark comparison and resulted in an exclusion of all evidence other than a comparison of class characteristics as not generally accepted as reliable by the relevant scientific community. 

Emily holds a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she graduated Cum Laude and received the Archie A. Gorfinkel Award for her work in criminal law.  She earned her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, where she studied Race and Class in U.S. History and held a Guggenheim Fellowship in Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention.