Our team is built on individuals with various backgrounds in the criminal justice field.

Holly Ziemer is the Director of Communications for CEPP and supports the Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research (APPR) initiative. She has served as Director of Communications at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, at the Center for Victims of Torture, at the Minnesota Smoke-Free Coalition, and for Minnesota Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III.  She has a background in journalism, having worked as an associate producer for several PBS Frontline documentaries produced at the Center for Investigative Reporting, and has written for the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register.  Ms. Ziemer holds an undergraduate degree in speech communication and rhetoric from the University of Minnesota and a master of arts in print journalism from the University of Southern California.