John Huffington spent 32 years in the Maryland Prison System, ten of which were on Death Row.
Maintaining his innocence for the crimes of which he was convicted, he ultimately secured his
release from prison in 2013 through a Writ of Actual Innocence. The diligence of the law firm of
Ropes & Gray and the investigative journalism of the Washington Post lead to uncovering that the
key evidence - hair samples - was proven through DNA testing to have been unreliable evidence.
He currently serves as the Director of Workforce Development for the Living Classrooms Foundation
and is responsible for directing Workforce Development/Job Training efforts for their Re-Entry
Program as well as the East Baltimore Target Investment Zone, a national model of breaking the
cycle of poverty, unemployment and incarceration by using a multi-generational approach to
providing low-skilled, unemployed, underemployed, and dislocated workers with multiple pathways
to gain family-supporting jobs and achieve financial stability.