Bri Murphy

Bri joined the CFSY in fall of 2024 as a Legal Fellow. In her role she supports the Transformative Healing and Restorative Justice programs and performs research and data collection about people serving De Facto Life Sentences who were charged as adults for crimes committed when they were children.

Bri Murphy is a recent, second-career graduate of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, Evening Division. She is committed to a version of justice in which all people are resourced to thrive. Throughout her life, Bri has worked and collaborated with individuals who are incarcerated, many of whom are/were serving Life Without Parole or Death By Incarceration sentences. It is their leadership and generosity that taught her both the strength of community and connection while exposing the inhumanity and limitations of institutions that are centered on punishment. Bri hopes their legal work contributes to expanded opportunities for post-conviction relief as a means to strengthen our communities, bring more people home, and actualize a more healing justice. 

Bri lives in the mushroom capital of the world in Kennett Square, PA and spends free time with friends and family (including a menagerie of animals), listening to audiobooks, enjoying the change of seasons, and being in community.