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Pamela Cytrynbaum
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She is executive director of The Chicago Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization of investigative reporters who explore and expose potential wrongful convictions. From 2010 - 2012 she taught multimedia journalism at Northwestern University"s Medill School of Journalism. From August 2003 - June 2004 she served on the staff of Northwestern University"s Medill School of Journalism, of which she is a 1988 alumna.
At Northwestern, she taught writing and multimedia storytelling.
She was also a professor at Brandeis University from 2005-2007 where she taught American Studies, was the associate director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, and director of the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project. She left Northwestern University"s Medill School of Journalism in 2012 to become executive director of The Chicago Innocence Project.
Cytrynbaum has been a reporter or freelancer for The New York Times, The Miami Herald and the Chicago Tribune. She began teaching at the University of Oregon in 1997.
Later she taught at Oregon State University teaching courses in New Media Communications in the English Department.
She taught journalism in the American Studies Department of Brandeis University, where she co-created and served as director of the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project (now the Justice Brandeis Law Project) in the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism from 2005 to 2007. She was also a staff writer for The Chicago Tribune and The New Orleans Times-Picayune. While working for The Chicago Tribune, she wrote about the criminal justice system, education, family life, relationships and women"s issues.
Cytrynbaum blogged for National Broadcasting Company Universal in "Woman on the Verge", and she also writes about grief, healing, sibling loss, divorce, parenting and spirituality as a blogger for Psychology Today.
She also writes about issues of race, class, teaching and education for the Southern Poverty Law Center"s website and magazine, Teaching Tolerance. Cytrynbaum"s writings have appeared in a number of publications which include:
The New York Times
The Washington Post
Psychology Today
The Times-Picayune
Teaching Tolerance
The Miami Herald
The Oregonian
The Chicago Sun-Times
Cytrynbaum is divorced with children.
She and her family currently reside in Evanston, Illinois.
