The Federal Capital Trial Project Mitigation Specialist assists federal defender staff, CJA counsel, and members of the Federal Capital Trial Project identify and retain appropriate, culturally competent mitigation specialists for new cases, leads efforts to train, mentor, and provide support to mitigation specialists in federal capital trial level cases, provides task-specific support to federal capital trial teams on a wide variety of mitigation issues, and works to increase the racial, ethnic and cultural diversity of the federal capital mitigation specialist community.