Tiffani D. Hurst has spent 20 years as a criminal defense attorney. During the majority of that time, she was a habeas attorney defending clients on death row. When the state death penalty was ruled unconstitutional, she entered private practice while attending Drexel University's M.S. program in Special Education with the goal of learning how to help stakeholders better navigate the Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) process. Ultimately, Tiffani sees the intersection of asset-based pedagogy, social emotional learning (SEL), and trauma-informed teaching as a way to accomplish her long-term goal of disrupting the preschool-to-prison nexus. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in education researching concrete steps that educators can take to develop and use a culturally competent lens as they implement practices and programs that will disrupt the nexus. Tiffani has a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, an M.S. in Education from Drexel University, an M.Ed. in Psychology from Springfield College, and a B.A. from Wellesley College. 

Herbert W. Mondros is Special Counsel at Rigrodsky Law. Mr. Mondros is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University and a magna cum laude graduate of Tulane University Law School, where he served as a member of the Tulane Law Review and was awarded the Order of the Coif. After graduating law school, Mr. Mondros entered the United States Department of Justice through the Honors Program. He served as a Trial Attorney in the Environmental Crimes Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief Appellate Counsel for the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Prior to joining Rigrodsky Law, Mr. Mondros was a litigation partner at Margolis Edelstein and a litigation associate in the Delaware office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in shareholder corporate and derivative litigation, securities and consumer fraud class actions, and commercial civil litigation. Mr. Mondros routinely litigates in all of Delaware’s state and federal courts. He has an active pro bono practice, representing defendants in capital punishment cases and plaintiffs in prisoner civil rights cases. Mr. Mondros has been a member of defense teams that exonerated and freed two individuals who had been wrongfully convicted and collectively served more than 30 years on Delaware’s death row, and a third who served 38 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Mr. Mondros serves on the Board of Innocence Project Delaware, an innocence organization dedicated to the exoneration of wrongfully convicted individuals.

Alan Stone is a partner in the New York office of Milbank LLP and a member of the firm’s Litigation & Arbitration Group.

Mr. Stone’s practice focuses on corporate and business litigation, and more specifically on cases involving complex business valuation disputes. He also works on non-litigation matters that involve a variety of corporate governance and Delaware law issues, including advising corporate boards of directors and special committees with respect to transactional and litigation issues. Mr. Stone also frequently represents boards and committees in conducting internal and independent investigations.

Mr. Stone has done extensive pro bono work representing wrongfully convicted and over-sentenced individuals.  He is a passionate advocate for criminal justice and prison reform.

Mr. Stone has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation as one of the leading lawyers in America for general commercial litigation and bankruptcy litigation.

Mr. Stone received his B.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Tulane University and his law degree, magna cum laude, from Tulane Law School where he was a senior notes and comments editor of the Tulane Law Review.

Mr. Stone clerked for the Honorable Andrew G.T. Moore II of the Delaware Supreme Court from 1987-1988.