WHO WE ARE
Built with exonerees, not simply for exonerees.
Pruno's Exoneree Advisory Council helps shape our priorities and programs through the lived experience of people who understand wrongful incarceration firsthand.
Exoneree Advisory Council
Eric Anderson
Karla Baday
Sabrina Butler Smith
Arturo Jimenez
Roderic Pippen
Elizabeth Ramirez
Khalil Rushdan
Staff
Nikki D. Pope
Executive Director
Nikki D. Pope is the co-founder, principal executive officer, and director of The Pruno Fund, Inc. She is the global leader for Trustworthy AI and in-house counsel at NVIDIA. She also co-wrote “Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope: Stories of Wrongful Conviction,” a book that profiles ten people who were wrongfully convicted and exonerated. She has been involved with wrongful conviction work since 2005. Nikki brings to The Pruno Fund her years of experience in business and in advising nonprofit organizations and their boards, as well as her experience as a board member and advisory board member of various nonprofit entities.
Tom Moore
Financial Director
Currently a Principal at Clemensen Capital Company, Tom has over 40 years of finance and investing experience. His current focus is wealth management.
Danielle Muller
Chief Operating Officer
Danielle Muller is a senior operations and strategy leader with 20+ years of experience helping organizations turn vision into action. Her work spans nonprofit, mental health, education, and mission-driven brands, with expertise in organizational systems, program development, digital strategy, and operational transformation. She also brings training in trauma-informed somatic process work, with a focus on the relationship between trauma, financial wellbeing, and systemic change.
Jessica Seargeant
Program Manager
Jess is a former research attorney and media associate at the Northern California Innocence Project. Jess brings to the The Pruno Fund her wide-ranging skills from organization to graphic design and communications management.
Board of Directors
Courtney B. Lance
Courtney B. Lance, a Chicago native and daughter of a civil rights activist, was introduced to wrongful conviction through her friend Nikki Pope, co-author of Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope. Moved by the stories of innocent people who lost decades to prison, she went on to co‑found The Pruno Fund.
Edward Lance
Ed is a Chicago‑based corporate attorney specializing in intellectual property at Archer Daniels Midland, with prior roles at McDonald’s Corporation and Kirkland & Ellis. He teaches as an adjunct at Loyola University Chicago, leads G‑IV Properties LLC, and has volunteered with Equip for Equality for more than a decade.
Tom Moore
Currently a Principal at Clemensen Capital Company, Tom has over 40 years of finance and investing experience. His current focus is wealth management.
Nikki D. Pope
Nikki co-founded The Pruno Fund after many conversations with exonerees over the years as way to help people returning from wrongful imprisonment back into their communities. Nikki is joined in this mission by friends old and new who share her commitment to the people we support.
Lee S. Raney
Lee is an entrepreneurial social sector leader skilled in building and leading organizations and teams. A strategic thinker, she has deep experience in operationalizing and scaling, facilitation, and collaboration.
Wynn J. Silberman
Wynn Silberman is an honors graduate of Northwestern University and holds a law degree from Santa Clara University. A licensed sports agent for over 20 years, he has represented elite athletes and co‑founded the Slake Agency to expand athlete branding opportunities. He also develops NFTs and digital assets for athletes and artists.
Aly Tamboura
Having spent over a decade of his life incarcerated, Aly brings both firsthand experience with the criminal justice system and his strong technical skills to help advance critical reforms in the space.
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