Milena Blake is a staff attorney at the Thee Strikes Project at Stanford Law School.  There, she represents inmates serving unnecessarily long sentences in state and federal prison, primarily through resentencing under Penal Code 1172.1 and habeas corpus. She has overturned more than 70 life sentences during her career. The Project remains actively involved in clients’ lives once they are released from custody, helping to provide services and programs that assist clients in the process of returning home and reentering their communities. Prior to joining the project, Milena served as the Policy Director at Californians for Safety and Justice and as Committee Counsel to the California Assembly Committee on Public Safety. There, she worked on pieces of legislation related to sentencing reform as well as improving access to substance use disorder treatment, prison conditions, and access to victim services. Milena also worked as a Public Defender in Solano County, where she specialized in juvenile clients, and was one of the co-authors of Proposition 47.