Gabriel Solis is the Executive Director of the Texas After Violence Project. Solis has worked as a post-conviction mitigation investigator for the Texas Office of Capital and Forensic Writs, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and a coordinator of the Rule of Law Oral History Project at Columbia University. He has conducted research on policing, mass incarceration, the death penalty, and the effects of violence and trauma on families and communities. He received a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.