{"id":797234,"date":"2019-06-30T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=368194"},"modified":"2019-06-30T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:36:38","slug":"cus-korey-wise-innocence-project-sees-boost-in-donations-in-wake-of-when-they-see-us-series-on-central-park-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/cus-korey-wise-innocence-project-sees-boost-in-donations-in-wake-of-when-they-see-us-series-on-central-park-five\/","title":{"rendered":"CU\u2019s Korey Wise Innocence Project sees boost in donations in wake of \u201cWhen They See Us\u201d series on Central Park Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/STILL202.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/STILL202.jpg 695w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/STILL202-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\"><figcaption><strong>Kharey Wise, one of the so-called \u201cCentral Park Five\u201d who would later change his name to Korey Wise, looks on in court as he is arraigned in the 1989 jogger rape case. After being exonerated, Wise donated $190,000 to the Innocence Project at the University of Colorado Boulder.<\/strong><br \/><em>Photo by John Pedin, NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Since \u201cWhen They See Us\u201d \u2014 a miniseries about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2013\/04\/06\/new-york-urged-to-settle-in-infamous-central-park-jogger-case\/\">wrongful convictions of five black and Latino youth in New York<\/a> \u2014 premiered on Netflix at the end of May, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/law\/academics\/clinics\/korey-wise-innocence-project\">University of Colorado Boulder\u2019s Korey Wise Innocence Project<\/a> has received more than $11,000 in donations.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s 10 times as much money as had been contributed over the first five months of 2019 to the organization that offers pro-bono legal assistance to people believed to have been wrongfully convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Korey Wise, one of the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2012\/12\/19\/movie-review-exoneration-shame-color-ken-burns-new-documentary-the-central-park-five\/\">Central Park Five<\/a>&nbsp;portrayed in the series, is tied to the Boulder campus after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2015\/12\/14\/man-cleared-in-central-park-jogger-case-gives-190k-to-cu-boulder-innocence-project-2\/\">donating $190,000 to the project in 2015<\/a>, hoping to give back to a program.<\/p>\n<p>The Netflix series has reinvigorated interest in the case stemming from the 1989 assault and rape of a jogger in New York City\u2019s Central Park. The ensuing criminal case spotlighted racial injustice in the legal system and now has compelled viewers to reach for their wallets and give to groups standing up for the wrongfully convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Ava DuVernay-directed series debuted May 31, CU\u2019s Korey Wise Innocence Project has received 152 donations amounting to $11,256. From January to the show\u2019s launch, the projec<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/06\/29\/korey-wise-innocence-project-when-they-see-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read the full story on The Denver Post website. (opens in a new tab)\">Read the full story on The Denver Post website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/cus-korey-wise-innocence-project-sees-boost-in-donations-in-wake-of-when-they-see-us-series-on-central-park-five\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kharey Wise, one of the so-called \u201cCentral Park Five\u201d who would later change his name to Korey Wise, looks on in court as he is arraigned in the 1989 jogger rape case. After being exonerated, Wise donated $190,000 to the Innocence Project at the University of Colorado Boulder.Photo by John Pedin, NY Daily News Archive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 09:57:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}