A wrongful conviction has devastating ripple effects across time, across families, and across communities. There is no instruction manual or one-size-fits-all model to heal from a wrongful conviction, not for the freed person or their loved ones. It demands time and space for the sharpness of these ripple effects to dull and for individuals, families, and communities to metabolize the injustice.

Starr Hansen knows this more than most. As the daughter of exoneree Michael Hansen, she has born the brunt of a wrongful conviction’s ripple effects and is an example of how an individual and a relationship, in this case that of father and daughter, can persevere and evolve in the face of loss, grief, and protracted injustice.