Colin Starger

Staff Attorney

Colin Starger joined the Innocence Project in September 2003. As a staff attorney, he litigates federal civil rights actions and state claims under DNA access statutes around the country in order to obtain biological evidence for post-conviction DNA testing. He also supervises clinical law students working with the Innocence Project.

Mr. Starger received his B.A. in History from UCLA in 1991, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Following graduation, Mr. Starger worked as a computer programmer and consultant for eight years. During this time, he also became heavily involved in prisoner-rights activism and helped organize around issues of mass incarceration and long-term solitary confinement.

Mr. Starger graduated from Columbia Law School in 2002. While at Columbia, Mr. Starger was a Stone and Kent scholar, and was also Executive Editor of "A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual" - Columbia's renowned self-help litigation manual for prisoners. Before joining the Innocence Project, Mr. Starger clerked for the Honorable Magistrate Judge Michael H. Dolinger in the Southern District of New York.

Colin Starger

Staff Attorney