Ellen Eggers is an attorney with the Office of the State Public Defender in Sacramento.She has been representing death row inmates in their direct appeals to the California Supreme Court since 1990.Before that she was counsel to Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union at their headquarters in Keene, California..Ellen was one of the founding members of the Sacramento Chapter of Death Penalty Focus, is an experienced community organizer and frequently speaks publicly against the death penalty.She has two grown children Tomas and Teresa.