Lydia Morgan

Lydia Morgan is the Director of Communications for the Ben Free Project, where she gives the organization its public voice and connects its people, advocacy, and projects into a unified mission. She shapes how the organization tells its story, elevates overlooked cases and impacted voices, and turns its work into advocacy that reaches beyond the people already paying attention.

Morgan is pursuing a Master of Legal Studies at UCLA School of Law, with a focus on criminal law. Her work spans criminal defense, prisoner rights, wrongful convictions, post-conviction justice, and systemic reform.

At the Ben Free Project, Morgan has helped lead major advocacy initiatives, including the Unchained Restorative Justice Festival and educational programming inside California prisons. She also founded Miscarriage of Justice Operations (MOJO), a legal innocence project at UCLA School of Law focused on post-conviction investigation, evidentiary analysis, and identifying the structural failures that allow injustice to occur and persist.

A commitment to freedom, accountability, and the people behind the cases drives her work. She brings overlooked evidence and voices into public view, challenges narratives that have gone unquestioned, and translates case-level injustice into systemic change.