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Executive Director
Before founding TFDP in 2004, Andrea Marsh worked to improve the delivery of indigent defense services in Texas as an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. She is a current member of the Oversight Board for the West Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Murder Cases, the State Bar of Texas’s Committee on Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters, and the Texas Access to Justice Commissionís Inmate Representation Special Project. She also has served as a member of the Harris County Public Defender Study Group, which developed a detailed proposal for the creation of a public defender office in Houston, and a number of working groups convened by the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense to develop indigent defense policy proposals at the statewide level.
Ms. Marsh received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. from Tulane University. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Keith P. Ellison in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Ms. Marsh has been awarded several prestigious national public interest fellowships, including the Liman Public Interest Fellowship (2002-2003, Yale Law School), the Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship (2004-2006, Open Society Institute), and the Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship (2005-2006, Harvard Law School). She was recognized by Texas Lawyer Magazine as one of 30 Extraordinary Women in Texas Law in September 2008 and received the Texas Law Fellowships 2009 Excellence in Public Interest Award.
Public Education and Outreach Coordinator
Adrián de la Rosa holds a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology, a Masters degree in Sociology, and a law degree from Texas Tech University. Throughout his studies, Mr. de la Rosa focused his attention on public interest and social justice issues. During his summers in law school, Mr. de la Rosa studied at the Summer Law Institute at the Universidad de Guanajuato and also worked as a day labor organizer for an immigrant workers’ rights center. In his spare time, Mr. de la Rosa has served as a board member for Proyecto Defensa Laboral (Workers Defense Project), a nonprofit organization that works to empower Latino immigrant workers to act collectively for racial and economic justice in the workplace, as well as actively volunteered for other local nonprofits. Mr. de la Rosa joined TFDP in September of 2005.
Policy Analyst
Amanda Marzullo graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a law degree and a Masters degree in Criminology. During her time in graduate school, she worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg, LLP., a criminal and civil rights law firm located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Before attending Penn, she was a paralegal at the New York Capital Defender Office and received her B.A. from New York University. Ms. Marzullo joined TFDP in 2008.
Staff Attorney
Rebecca Webber graduated with a B.A. in History from the University of Texas at Austin and received her law degree from Yale Law School. Following law school, she worked in Texas border communities as a Staff Attorney and Assistant Public Defender with Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid. Ms. Webber joined TFDP in 2009.
