Draft:Kathleen Ridolfi

Kathleen M. "Cookie" Ridolfi is a Professor Emerita at Santa Clara University School of Law, cofounder of the Northern California Innocence Project, and political activist. Ridolfi was a member of the Camden 28, a group of Catholic leftist activists who launched a raid on a draft board in Camden, New Jersey to protest the Vietnam War.

Early Life and Education
Ridolfi was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she attended St. Maria Goretti Catholic High School. It was during her time at St. Maria Goretti that she made connections which drew her to the Catholic Left after her graduation.

She earned a B.A. from Rutgers University, and in 1982 she earned a J.D., also from Rutgers University.