Emily Prokesch

Emily Prokesch is the owner and founder of the forensic consulting and litigation firm EP Forensics LLC.  Emily currently serves as the Chair of the Legal Task Group to the Organization of Scientific Area Committees under NIST and on the pattern matching planning committee for the National Forensic College, where she is faculty.  Emily trains nationally on forensic evidence and Artificial Intelligence and collaborates on policy efforts to prevent the misuse of science and technology in the criminal legal system.

Prior to founding EP Forensics, Emily was the inaugural Team Leader of the New York State Defender Association’s Discovery and Forensic Support Unit; a First Chair Trial Attorney at the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender in Atlanta, GA; and the Forensic Practice Director and member of the Homicide Practice Group at The Bronx Defenders,
where she represented indigent clients facing criminal charges, supervised the Forensic
Practice Group, and oversaw forensic litigation and training.

Emily holds a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she graduated Cum Laude and received the Archie A. Gorfinkel Award for her work in criminal law.  She earned her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, where she studied Race and Class in U.S. History and held a Guggenheim Fellowship in
Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention.

Publications: Emily J. Prokesch, Richard E. Gutierrez. Commentary on: R. Austin Hicklin et al. Accuracy and reproducibility of bullet comparison decisions by forensic examiners. Forensic Sci. Int’l. 2024; 365, 112287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2024.112287 Emily J. Prokesch, The Myth of the Match: Pattern Matching in Cases Involving Firearms Evidence. 98 Wis. Law. 8-13 (February 2025). Gutierrez RE, Prokesch EJ. The False Promise of Firearms Examination Validation Studies: Lay Controls, Simplistic Comparisons, and the Failure to Soundly Measure
Misidentification Rates. J Forensic Sci. 2024; 69:1334-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.15531