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Claudia Van Wyk comes to the Capital Punishment Project after 14 years at the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Community Defender Office in Philadelphia. Before that she spent many years as a public defender in New York and New Jersey, where she did both capital and non-capital appellate work. Her two proudest accomplishments are helping to walk one death row client out of prison and helping to give another death row client a good death in the presence of friends.

Claudia was born and raised on Long Island in New York. She first developed an interest in indigent defense in the criminal defense clinic at NYU Law School. Claudia is admitted to the bars of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.