We are proud to share that Ms. Shreya Rastogi, Director of Litigation and Forensics at Project 39A, is being awarded the 2024 Magnus Mukoro Award for Integrity in Forensic Science by the DNA Unit of the New York Legal Aid Society in New York! We extend our heartiest congratulations to Shreya for her pioneering work on forensics in the Indian criminal justice system. This prestigious award is a recognition of Shreya’s indefatigable efforts to push the Indian criminal justice system to rely only on valid and reliable science.
Awarded since 2015, the Magnus Mukoro Award is conferred on a person that has demonstrated extraordinary accomplishments in the field of forensics. Shreya Rastogi is the first non-American and the first Indian to receive the award! Presented as part of their annual conference, Questioning Forensics, previous recipients include some of the biggest names in forensics globally – Erin Murphy (Professor of Law, New York University and author of Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA) to Dr. John Butler (NIST Fellow, renowned scientist and leading author on Forensic DNA Profiling) and Sarah Chu (currently Director of Policy and Reform at Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo School of Law).
This year’s Questioning Forensics takes place between 5th – 6th December in New York City and is inspired by the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s groundbreaking recent study of human factors in forensic science and how that informs our understanding of DNA interpretation.