Matthew Wasserman is a staff attorney in the Innocence Project’s strategic litigation department, focusing on law reform efforts around eyewitness identification evidence.

Before joining the Innocence Project, Matt was a staff attorney at the Bronx Defenders, where he represented hundreds of people accused of crimes ranging from misdemeanors to violent felonies. He also worked as a staff attorney at the Office of the Appellate Defender and an associate at a civil rights firm. Matt clerked for the Honorable Allyne R. Ross of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Jane B. Stranch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He graduated from New York University School of Law, where he was an articles editor for the NYU Law Review and a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar. He received a master’s from the Sorbonne and a B.A. from Reed College.