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Ask a Mitigation Specialist – June 18

Ask a Mitigation Specialist, a resource program that allows defenders to meet directly and privately with a mitigation specialist for specific technical assistance. Complete the form below for a 25-minute session with experienced mitigation professionals. The information discussed during each session is confidential. Complete the registration form to request an appointment.


  • June 18, 2025
  • 3:00 pm EDT
  • Heather Barrow & Indrani Belaratnam

  • Free Admission

Heather Barrow

Heather began her career over 26 years ago working with Bryan Stevenson at EJI while still a college student earning her degree in History at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. 

Heather worked on many projects during her two stints at EJI including race and poverty, pardon and parole revocation, direct rehabilitation and restoration with clients, discrimination in jury selection, reform of death in prison sentences for children, along with investigation and mitigation in post-conviction capital cases. 

She has been a self-employed mitigation expert in both capital trial and post-conviction cases in several states throughout the Southeast. She has worked as an Investigator & Mitigation Specialist in a post-conviction office in Tennessee, as Chief Investigator at a state post-conviction office in Florida, and at a Federal CHU in Florida. Recently, Heather worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center. She was fortunate enough to work on multiple matters including censorship in education and was the investigator in the lawsuit filed by multiple nonprofits challenging the State of Louisiana imprisoning children on the former death row at Angola. That lawsuit led to the removal of children from Angola prison. 

Heather has worked on hundreds of capital cases in both trial and post-conviction.

She is currently a Special Investigator and Mitigation Specialist with the Kansas Capital Habeas Unit.

 

Indrani Belaratnam

Indrani is currently an attorney in criminal defense practice at the Bronx Defenders in New York. She also holds over a decade of experience in capital defense work as a mitigation specialist. She has worked in pre-trial and post-conviction proceedings at state and federal levels and at the military commissions. 

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