Tara Cardinal

Tara Cardinal is the Director of Domestic Violence Prevention Programs and a member of the Advisory Board at the Ben Free Project. She is the originator of the Hostageship™ framework, a prevention model that teaches people to recognize coercive control early, before it escalates. She is developing a domestic violence prevention curriculum to teach in prisons.

Tara also conducts post-conviction case review focused on DNA interpretation, laboratory error, and the case narrative. Her reinvestigation of a capital case produced six wrongful-execution civil lawsuits.

She holds a B.S. in Psychology from Nova Southeastern University and a postgraduate certificate in DNA interpretation from the University of Lausanne, with a specialization in laboratory error and database searches.