Lydia Morgan
Benjamin Frandsen
Benjamin Frandsen
Lydia Morgan is the Founder and Executive Director of Miscarriage of Justice Operations (MOJO) at UCLA School of Law.
She leads student-driven efforts to investigate wrongful convictions and expose systemic failures in the criminal justice system. Her work centers on post-conviction review, evidentiary analysis, and the structural gaps tha
Lydia Morgan is the Founder and Executive Director of Miscarriage of Justice Operations (MOJO) at UCLA School of Law.
She leads student-driven efforts to investigate wrongful convictions and expose systemic failures in the criminal justice system. Her work centers on post-conviction review, evidentiary analysis, and the structural gaps that allow injustice to persist.
Morgan is the Director of Communications for the Ben Free Project, where she shapes advocacy strategy and produces multimedia work that brings attention to overlooked cases and impacted voices. In parallel, she works in criminal defense as a paralegal, supporting case strategy through legal research, drafting, and client-centered advocacy in high-risk, high-consequence matters.
Her work is driven by a commitment to freedom and a refusal to accept systems that operate without accountability. She focuses on identifying prosecutorial and investigative misconduct, challenging flawed processes, and advancing meaningful reform. Through MOJO, she confronts the conditions that allow wrongful convictions to occur and persist, with an emphasis on rigorous review, transparency, and systemic change.
Benjamin Frandsen
Benjamin Frandsen
Benjamin Frandsen
Benjamin Frandsen is a death penalty prosecution survivor who spent eighteen years wrongfully incarcerated in California’s prison system.
Co-founder of Miscarriage of Justice Operations (MOJO) with Lydia Morgan at UCLA School of Law, he works to investigate, expose, and overturn wrongful convictions and other
miscarriages of justice.
A rec
Benjamin Frandsen is a death penalty prosecution survivor who spent eighteen years wrongfully incarcerated in California’s prison system.
Co-founder of Miscarriage of Justice Operations (MOJO) with Lydia Morgan at UCLA School of Law, he works to investigate, expose, and overturn wrongful convictions and other
miscarriages of justice.
A recipient of the 2026 Writing Freedom Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation and Haymarket Books, Frandsen graduated summa cum laude with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from San Diego State University in 2026. He also holds a B.A. in English with honors from UCLA. He currently serves as a Teaching Associate at
San Diego State University.
Frandsen is the founder and Executive Director of the Ben Free Project and host of the Ben Free Podcast. To date, the Ben Free Project has secured contracts to teach creative arts programming inside five California prisons. Drawing from his own wrongful conviction and exoneration, he brings lived experience, tenacity, and a deep commitment to justice reform to every case
MOJO takes on.