Valena Elizabeth Beety is an innocence litigator, a law professor, and a former federal prosecutor. She is currently the Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and co-founder of the Indiana Innocence Project. Previously, Beety served as the Founding Director of the West Virginia Innocence Project. She has successfully exonerated wrongfully convicted clients, obtained presidential grants of clemency for drug offenses, and served as an elected board member of the national Innocence Network. Her experiences as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., and as an innocence litigator in Mississippi and West Virginia, shape her research and writing on wrongful convictions, forensic evidence, prosecution, and incarceration. She is the co-editor of The Wrongful Convictions Reader, and author of the book Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights.