Valena E. Beety

Valena Elizabeth Beety is an accomplished legal professional with extensive experience in criminal justice.

She currently serves as a law professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and previously founded the West Virginia Innocence Project.

Beety's background includes working as a federal prosecutor and an innocence litigator, which informs her research and writing on wrongful convictions, forensic evidence, and incarceration.

She has co-edited the Wrongful Convictions Reader and authored "Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights." Beety's work reflects her commitment to addressing systemic issues in the criminal justice system and advocating for the wrongfully convicted.