Yusef Salaam is a member of the Exonerated Five who was wrongly convicted of a rape and assault that took place in New York’s Central Park in 1989. After another person confessed to the crime and DNA evidence corroborated the confession, Mr. Salaam, along with four other teenagers he had been wrongly convicted with, was exonerated in 2002. Since then, he has been an advocate for reform on innocence issues and speaks more broadly on criminal justice issues.