Elizabeth Hambourger is a senior attorney and public information liaison at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, based in Durham, where she represents death-sentenced prisoners and those facing capital murder charges, specializing in claims of race discrimination in jury selection. She is also a key contributor to Racist Roots, CDPL’s project on race and the North Carolina death penalty (www.racistroots.org). She received her B.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law.