At Complete Picture, we believe justice requires context. As a nonprofit, we bring the full human story into focus — especially for individuals facing incarceration for non-violent offenses.

Through immersive video portraits, we illuminate the social, emotional, cultural, and structural forces that shape a person’s path — revealing context too often missing from legal proceedings.

This includes trauma histories, systemic barriers, rehabilitation efforts, support networks, and the ripple effects of incarceration on families and communities.

By elevating voices often silenced in legal proceedings we help courts consider a more complete and truthful picture. In doing so, we challenge the unconscious assumptions that routinely shape legal outcomes and support more informed, humane, and equitable decisions.

The Breaking Implicit Bias 3-part series is a natural extension of our broader mission: to restore dignity, accuracy, and equity to a legal system that too often overlooks the person behind the case.

As mitigation video specialists, we’ve seen how incomplete narratives and unconscious bias can distort outcomes. Our experience has shown that when judges and decision-makers are presented with deeper insight into a person’s life — including their context, complexity, community and capacity for change — they often make more fair, compassionate, and effective decisions.

This course series was born out of that work. Video narrative is a uniquely powerful tool, one that conveys evidence through story, surfaces overlooked context, and disrupts the assumptions that too often shape legal outcomes.

A randomized controlled trial by Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab found that narrative-based courtroom strategies, including those that humanize defendants and provide life context, significantly improved juror assessments of credibility, intent, and accountability, while reducing reliance on implicit biases.

We developed this curriculum to equip legal professionals with the tools to recognize implicit bias, interrupt its impact, and advocate for clients in more complete and human-centered ways.

The series is taught by a multidisciplinary team of legal professionals, educators, and subject matter experts. Their combined expertise spans judicial decision-making, narrative advocacy, trauma-informed legal practice, cultural competency, and implicit bias mitigation.

Hon. Judge Mark W. Bennett (Ret.)
Former U.S. District Court Judge of 27 years; expert on implicit bias, judicial reform, and sentencing discretion.

Matthew Clair, PhD
Stanford sociologist focused on legal inequality, racial justice, and the role of narrative in the legal process.

Prof. Leticia Saucedo
UC Davis law professor specializing in labor and immigration law, with emphasis on advocacy for marginalized workers.

Shawn Marsh, PhD
Social/legal psychologist and former judicial educator with deep expertise in trauma-informed justice and decision-making bias.

Jennie Singer, PhD
Clinical and forensic psychologist specializing in trauma, neurodivergence, and psychological mitigation in criminal sentencing. Former professor of criminal justice and expert in mental health in correctional settings.

Omkari Williams
Narrative strategist, facilitator, and coach with over 30 years of experience helping advocates use story to advance equity and systemic change.

Shari Rusk, Attorney
Veteran criminal defense attorney with 30 years of experience. Former law clerk to a U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge and active advocate for justice in complex felony cases.

Toni White, J.D.
Criminal defense and appellate attorney with expertise in federal and juvenile justice, with a strong record of indigent defense and systemic advocacy across trial and appellate courts.

Rebecca Grace, Complete Picture CEO
Founder of a national nonprofit dedicated to humanizing defendants through personalized sentencing videos. She brings over 20 years of experience in documentary editing, visual storytelling, and narrative mitigation.