RMIC Staff

Katie Monroe, Executive Director

Ms. Monroe began as RMIC’s Executive Director in September 2006.  Prior to joining RMIC, Ms. Monroe was Senior Counsel at the Constitution Project, a bipartisan policy reform organization in Washington, D.C., and served on the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project.  Ms. Monroe’s interest in innocence work began in 1992, when her mother, Beverly, was wrongly convicted of murder in Virginia.  Ms. Monroe spearheaded a legal battle to free her mother, which was won in 2003.  As part of this effort, Ms. Monroe founded a grassroots advocacy organization to conduct outreach and education and organize citizen action about wrongful convictions.  Ms. Monroe began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Bernard G. Barrow of the Virginia Court of Appeals and an attorney for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.  She received her law degree from George Mason University School of Law in 1990.  Ms. Monroe is an adjunct clinical professor of law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, and she serves on the Board of Directors of the National Innocence Network.

Email:  kmonroe@rminnocence.org

 

Darcie Yarbrough, Program Coordinator and Case Assistant

Ms. Yarbrough began volunteering for RMIC in January 2009 and joined RMIC fulltime in March 2011.  Prior to joining RMIC, Ms. Yarbrough worked as a file clerk for the law firm of Snell & Wilmer and as an office services clerk for the law firm of Stoel Rives.  Ms. Yarbrough has performed public relations, office management, and administrative work for other, local nonprofits and done fundraising and development work for Brigham Young University (BYU).   Ms. Yarbrough graduated from BYU in 2006 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science.

Email:  dyarbrough@rminnocence.org

 

Elizabeth Fasse, Staff Attorney

Ms. Fasse joined RMIC in March 2011.  Prior to joining RMIC, Ms. Fasse worked as an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, where she worked on a variety of litigation matters, including complex internal investigations and civil fraud defense.  Ms. Fasse was active in Fried Frank’s pro bono program, representing clients in immigration and civil rights litigation.  While at the firm, Ms. Fasse participated in a four-month externship program at the Constitution Project, where she focused on immigration issues.  During law school, Ms. Fasse also completed a clerkship with the Brennan Center Public Policy Clinic.  Ms. Fasse received her law degree from the NYU School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Pomona College.

Email:  efasse@rminnocence.org