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SPEAKER BIOS
ASHLEY ALLISON
Executive Vice President, Campaigns & Programs
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL
AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Ashley Allison is executive vice president, campaigns & programs, at The Leadership
Conference. Allison brings over a decade of outreach, community organizing and
campaign experience, along with an expertise in crisis management, coalition
building, and strategic planning. From July 2014 to January 2017, she was the
deputy director and senior policy advisor under Valerie Jarrett in the White House
Office of Public Engagement. Her portfolio included managing a team that worked
with the LGBTQ, Muslim, faith, African-American, disability, and entertainment
communities. Allison’s primary policy focus at the White House was criminal justice
and policing reform.
Prior to joining government, she worked on healthcare enrollment and partner
engagement at the non-profit Enroll America and on President Obama’s 2012
reelection campaign doing statewide African-American voter outreach in Ohio.
Allison is a graduate of Ohio State University. She also spent seven years in New
York earning her Juris Doctorate from Brooklyn Law School and Masters in Education
from Long Island University while she working as a high school special education
teacher in Brooklyn.
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ANTHONY ANNUCCI
Acting Commissioner
NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND
COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
Anthony J. Annucci was named the Acting Commissioner of the New York State
Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, by Governor Andrew M.
Cuomo, effective May 1, 2013. Prior to that he served as the Executive Deputy
Commissioner since October 2007. As Acting Commissioner, Mr. Annucci played a
lead role in negotiating the historic special housing unit interim stipulation with the
New York Civil Liberties Union. Under the stipulation, New York's prison system
barred the use of special housing units for disciplining prisoners who are under 18
years of age or pregnant and created both an alternative program for those who are
developmentally disabled and disciplinary guidelines for hearing officers to apply with
all infractions.
He devotes time and attention to the Department's use of evidence-based programs
designed to reduce recidivism through reliance on the risk, needs and responsivity
model, with a renewed emphasis upon educational opportunities. In addition, he
guides efforts in complying with the national Prison Rape Elimination Act standards,
while also focusing on the safety of staff, inmates, and parolees.
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JEFF ASHER @crimealytics
Crime Analyst
JEFF ASHER CONSULTING, LLC
Jeff Asher is a crime analyst and consultant based in New Orleans, LA. He has
previously worked as an analyst for the City of New Orleans and CIA. Jeff regularly
writes for data journalism website FiveThirtyEight.com and his work has appeared in
The New York Times and other national and local publications.
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DARYL ATKINSON
Co-Director
FORWARD JUSTICE
Daryl V. Atkinson is the Co-Director of Forward Justice, a law, policy and strategy
center dedicated to advancing racial, social and economic justice in the US South.
Prior to joining Forward Justice, Mr. Atkinson was the first Second Chance Fellow for
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). While at DOJ, Mr. Atkinson was an advisor to the
Second Chance portfolio of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), a member of the
Federal Interagency Reentry Council, and a conduit to the broader justice-involved
population to ensure that BJA heard from all stakeholders when developing reentry
policy.
Most notably in 2014, Mr. Atkinson was recognized by the White House as a
“Reentry and Employment Champion of Change” for his extraordinary work to
facilitate employment opportunities for people with criminal records. Mr. Atkinson is a
founding member of the North Carolina Second Chance Alliance and serves on the
North Carolina Commission for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice
System. He received a B.A. in Political Science from Benedict College, Columbia, SC
and a J.D. from the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN.
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ANA BERMUDEZ
Commissioner
NEW YORK (NY) DEPARTMENT OF PROBATION
Ana M. Bermúdez is the NYC Department of Probation’s (DOP’s) first openly gay
person, first Latina and second woman to be appointed Commissioner. A graduate
of Brown University and Yale Law School, Commissioner Bermúdez began her
professional career representing children in family court cases at the Legal Aid
Society. For over twenty years, she has been a tireless advocate for children and
teenagers involved in the justice system through the development and
implementation of strengths-based interventions, the application of restorative and
youth development practices and the designing of programs that ensure successful
re-integration for adjudicated juveniles.
During her tenure as DOP’s Deputy Commissioner of Juvenile Operations from 2010
through 2014, she successfully led city-wide initiatives that focused on improving
outcomes for court-involved youth through interdisciplinary collaborations. With her
appointment to Commissioner in March 2014, she continues to lead the Department
in its mission to enhance public safety through appropriate and individualized and
community-based interventions in the lives of people on probation to enable them to
permanently exit the justice system.
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CARROLL BOGERT @carrollbogert
President
THE MARSHALL PROJECT
Carroll Bogert is president of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering
criminal justice. Bogert was previously deputy executive director at Human Rights
Watch, running its global media operations for 18 years. Before joining Human Rights
Watch, Bogert spent twelve years as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek in
China, Southeast Asia, and the Soviet Union.
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G.T. BYNUM @gtbynum
Mayor
CITY OF TULSA (OK)
G.T. Bynum was sworn in as the 40th Mayor of Tulsa on December 5, 2016. Prior to
his election as Mayor, Bynum served for eight years on the Tulsa City Council. During
that time, he was elected as the youngest City Council Chairman in Tulsa history.
Throughout his time in Tulsa city government, Mayor Bynum has focused on fiscal
restraint, public safety, infrastructure and quality of life. He led the successful effort to
enact the largest streets improvement package in the city's history, authored the first
city sales tax cut in Tulsa history, doubled the number of Police academies to
increase manpower, authored legislation creating the first municipal rainy day fund in
Oklahoma and coordinated efforts to establish the first municipal veterans treatment
court in the United States.
Bynum is a proud graduate of two institutions operated by the Augustinian Order of
the Catholic Church: Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa and Villanova
University, where he served as Student Body President. He previously worked as the
managing partner of Capitol Ventures, and before that in the United States Senate for
Senators Don Nickles and Tom Coburn. Mayor Bynum comes from a family
dedicated to public service and he and his wife, Susan, are the proud parents of
Robert and Annabel – the sixth generation of Bynums to call Tulsa home.
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ED CHUNG @edchungDC
Vice President, Criminal Justice Reform
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
Ed Chung’s work at American Progress focuses on reducing the footprint of the
criminal justice system while making it fairer and more equitable effective. Under the
banner of Smart on Crime, Chung has developed a variety of policies and legislation
around comprehensive public safety strategies, sentencing and prison reform,
opportunities for the justice-involved, and ending the war on drugs. His work has
been cited in The New Yorker, Slate, and The Huffington Post, among other national
publications, and he often appears as a subject matter expert on media platforms
such as NPR, Sirius XM, and the Progressive Voices Network. Chung is also the co-
host of Thinking CAP, a weekly podcast featuring national leaders on current events.
Prior to joining CAP, Chung was a senior adviser and special counsel at the U.S.
Department of Justice, where he focused on criminal justice, policing, and civil rights
issues at the Office of Justice Programs and the Civil Rights Division. His experience
also includes serving as senior policy adviser at the White House Domestic Policy
Council; counsel to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) at the U.S. Senate Committee on the
Judiciary; a federal prosecutor, and assistant district attorney at the Manhattan
District Attorney’s Office.
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JOSÉ CISNEROS
Treasurer
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO (CA)
José Cisneros is the elected Treasurer for the City and County of San Francisco. As
Treasurer, he serves as the City’s banker and Chief Investment Officer, managing all
tax and revenue collection for San Francisco. In office since 2004, Cisneros has used
his experience in the tech and banking industries to enhance and modernize
taxpayer systems and successfully manage the City’s portfolio through a major
recession.
Treasurer Cisneros believes that his role of safeguarding the City’s money extends to
all San Francisco residents, and continues to expand his role as a financial educator
and advocate for low-income San Franciscans through award-winning initiatives like
the Financial Justice Project, Kindergarten to College, and Bank On San Francisco.
Cisneros is co-chair of the Cities for Financial Empowerment Coalition and previously
served as Vice Chair on the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for
Young Americans.
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www.smartoncrime.usKHALIL CUMBERBATCH @khacumberbatch
Associate Vice President of Policy
THE FORTUNE SOCIETY
Khalil A. Cumberbatch is the Associate Vice President of Policy for the David
Rothenberg Center for Public Policy leading The Fortune Society’s advocacy, policy,
research, and community education efforts. Mr. Cumberbatch has worked within the
reentry community in NYC since 2010, when he was released after serving almost
seven years in the NYS prison system. In 2014, he was one of two recipients of an
Executive Pardon from NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo to prevent his deportation
from the United States. He is a powerful motivational speaker and formerly
incarcerated national advocate for social justice issues.
Khalil graduated from Herbert H. Lehman College in 2014 where he was awarded the
Urban Justice Award for his work with underserved and marginalized communities
that have ineffective access to social "safety nets." Khalil previously served as
Manager of Training at JustLeadershipUSA, advancing campaigns to reduce mass
incarceration. Khalil also serves as a lecturer at Columbia University School of Social
Work.
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www.smartoncrime.usRONALD DAVIS @rondaviscp
Former Director, US Dept. of Justice COPS Office
21CP SOLUTIONS, LLC
Ronald L. Davis is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Harvard Law School
Criminal Justice Policy Program and a Principal Consultant at 21st Century Policing
Solutions, LLC.
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www.smartoncrime.usLAUREN-BROOKE EISEN @lbeisen
Senior Fellow
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE
Lauren-Brooke Eisen is Senior Fellow in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program where
she focuses on improving the criminal justice process through legal reforms,
specifically how the criminal justice system is funded. She is also a Pulitzer Center for
Crisis Reporting grantee. Previously Ms. Eisen was a Senior Program Associate at
the Vera Institute of Justice in the Center on Sentencing and Corrections where she
worked on policies that aimed to improve public safety while reducing prison
populations. Eisen also served as an assistant district attorney in New York City
where she served in the Appeals Bureau, the Criminal Court Bureau, and the Sex
Crimes Special Victims Bureau where she prosecuted a wide range of misdemeanor
and felony cases.
Before entering law school, Eisen worked as a beat reporter for a daily newspaper in
Laredo, Texas where she covered criminal justice issues. Eisen has taught an
undergraduate seminar on mass incarceration at Yale, currently serves as an adjunct
instructor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and supervises NYU Law
students who participate in the Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy Clinic. She
holds an AB from Princeton University and a JD from the Georgetown University Law
Center. Eisen has also recently published a book called Inside Private Prisons: An
American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press
2017).
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www.smartoncrime.usMAI FERNANDEZ
Executive Director
NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME
Mai Fernandez is executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, a
position she has held since June 2010. With a distinguished 25-year career in the
criminal justice, nonprofit, and policy arenas, Fernandez brings to the National Center
extensive national, state, and local leadership experience in victim-related work.
Formerly the acting executive director of the Latin American Youth Center -- a DC-
based nonprofit organization that provides multicultural underserved youth with
education, social, and job training services -- Fernandez has spent the last 13 years
managing programs that serve victims of child abuse, sex trafficking, and gang
violence.
Before joining the Latin American Youth Center, Fernandez served as Assistant
District Attorney for New York County, helping victims navigate the criminal justice
system and pleading their cases before the court. She also developed policy for
victims of domestic and youth violence at the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of
Justice Programs, and served as a Congressional aide to U.S. Representatives
Mickey Leland and Jim Florio.
Mai Fernandez received her undergraduate degree from Dickinson College, Juris
Doctor from American University, and Masters in Public Administration from Harvard
University's JFK School of Government. Mai [pronounced "MY"] resides with her
husband and son in Washington, DC.
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www.smartoncrime.usERICA FORD @ericafordnyc
CEO
LIFE CAMP, INC
Erica Ford is a Humble Servant that is most known for co-creating the Crisis
Management System & Peace Week in New York City
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www.smartoncrime.usADAM FOSS @adamjohnfoss
Executive Director
PROSECUTOR IMPACT
Adam J. Foss is a former Assistant District Attorney in the Juvenile Division of the
Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office (SCDAO) in Boston, MA, and a fierce
advocate for criminal justice reform and the importance of the role of the prosecutor
in ending mass incarceration. Mr. Foss believes that the profession of prosecution is
ripe for reinvention requiring better incentives and more measurable metrics for
success beyond, simply, “cases won” leading him to found Prosecutor Impact - a
non-profit developing training and curriculum for prosecutors to reframe their role in
the criminal justice system.
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www.smartoncrime.usKIMBERLY FOXX
State's Attorney
COOK COUNTY (IL)
Kimberly M. Foxx is the first African American woman to lead the Cook County
State’s Attorney’s Office – the country’s second largest prosecutor’s office. Her vision
is to build the most just, equitable, and transparent prosecutor’s office in the country,
by working proactively to make all communities safe while investing in policies to
address the underlying drivers of contact with the criminal justice system. Her first
year in office has brought substantial progress in priority areas including wrongful
convictions, bond reform, and gun violence. Born and raised on Chicago’s Near
North Side, she is a graduate of Southern Illinois University, where she earned a B.A.
in Political Science and a J.D. from the School of Law.
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www.smartoncrime.usBARRY FRIEDMAN @barryfriedman1
Director
POLICING PROJECT
Barry Friedman serves as the Director of the Policing Project at New York University
School of Law, where he is the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Affiliated
Professor of Politics. The Policing Project is dedicated to strengthening policing
through ordinary democratic processes; it drafts best practices and policies for
policing agencies, including on issues of technology and surveillance, assists with
transparency, conducts cost-benefit analysis of policing practices, and leads
engagement efforts between policing agencies and communities. Friedman has
taught, litigated, and written about constitutional law, the federal courts, policing, and
criminal procedure for over thirty years. He serves as the Reporter for the American
Law Institute’s new Principles of the Law, Policing.
Friedman is the author of Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, February 2017), and has written numerous articles in scholarly journals,
including on Democratic Policing and the Fourth Amendment. He appears frequently
in the popular media, including the New York Times, Slate, Huffington Post, Politico
and the New Republic. He also is the author of the critically acclaimed The Will of the
People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the
Meaning of the Constitution (2009). Friedman graduated with honors from the
University of Chicago and received his law degree magna cum laude from
Georgetown University Law Center. He clerked for Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the
US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
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www.smartoncrime.usADAM GELB @abgelb
President & CEO
COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Adam Gelb has been working for a more just and effective criminal justice system
throughout a 30-year career as a journalist, congressional aide, senior state
government official, and nonprofit executive. From 2006-2018, Gelb led the Pew
Charitable Trusts’ Public Safety Performance Project, producing groundbreaking
national research that documented the high cost and low public safety return of
traditional sentencing and corrections policies and helping 35 states develop, adopt
and implement increasingly comprehensive and impactful criminal and juvenile justice
reforms.
Gelb’s first job out of the University of Virginia was as a reporter at the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, covering police and the drug war at its height in the late 1980s.
After earning a Master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy
School of Government, he staffed the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee during
negotiations and final passage of the landmark 1994 federal crime bill. From 1995 to
2000, as policy director for the lieutenant governor of Maryland, Gelb established
several initiatives that focused enforcement and prevention efforts on at-risk people
and neighborhoods. He served as executive director of the Georgia Sentencing
Commission from 2001 to 2003 and, before joining Pew, as vice president for
programs at the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse where he oversaw youth
reentry and methamphetamine control programs.
Gelb speaks frequently with the media about national trends and state innovations
and advises policy makers on formulation of practical, cost-effective policies. He is
currently launching a new national nonpartisan membership organization and think
tank dedicated to anchoring criminal justice policy in facts, evidence and
fundamental principles of justice.
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www.smartoncrime.usERIC GONZALEZ @BrooklynDA
District Attorney
KINGS COUNTY (NY)
Eric Gonzalez made history in November 2017 when he became the first Latino
District Attorney elected in New York State. He had been appointed Acting District
Attorney by Governor Andrew Cuomo a year earlier following the tragic death of his
predecessor, the late Ken Thompson, with whom Gonzalez had served as Chief
Assistant District Attorney. Since his appointment to lead the office, DA Gonzalez
has implemented his own trailblazing initiatives, including bail reform, a Young Adult
Court and a policy to reduce unfair immigration consequences in criminal cases.
Following his swearing in as District Attorney in January, Mr. Gonzalez launched the
Justice 2020 initiative to help him carry out his vision of keeping Brooklyn safe and
strengthening community trust in our criminal justice system by ensuring fairness and
equal justice for all.
DA Gonzalez began his legal career in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office
upon his graduation from law school in 1995, and spent several years as a junior and
then senior assistant in various bureaus, including the Sex Crimes and Special
Victims Bureau, Domestic Violence Bureau, Orange Zone Trial Bureau, and Green
Zone Trial Bureau, where he was promoted to Chief. In March 2014, he was
promoted by District Attorney Thompson to Counsel to the District Attorney where he
successfully guided the launch of the nationally-recognized Conviction Review Unit
and framed and implemented the office policy of declining to prosecute possession of
marijuana. DA Gonzalez is a graduate of Cornell University and University of
Michigan Law School.
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www.smartoncrime.usVANITA GUPTA
President and CEO
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL
AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Vanita Gupta is an experienced leader and litigator who has devoted her entire
career to civil rights work. Most recently, from October 15, 2014, to January 20,
2017, she served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and head of the
U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Appointed by President Barack
Obama as the chief civil rights prosecutor for the United States, the division under
Gupta’s leadership did critical work in a number of areas, including the investigations
of the Ferguson, Baltimore, and Chicago police departments; the appeals of the
Texas and North Carolina voter ID cases; the challenge to North Carolina’s HB2 law
and other transgender rights litigation; enforcement of education, land use, hate
crimes, and other statutes to combat Islamophobia and other forms of religious
discrimination; the issuance of statements of interest on bail and indigent defense
reform, and letters to state and local court judges and administrators on the unlawful
imposition of fines and fees in criminal justice system; and the Administration’s report
on solitary confinement.
Prior to joining the Justice Department, Gupta served as Deputy Legal Director and
the Director of the Center for Justice at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
She joined the ACLU in 2006 as a staff attorney, where she subsequently secured a
landmark settlement on behalf of immigrant children from around the world detained
in a privately-run prison in Texas that ultimately led to the end of “family detention” at
the facility. In addition to managing a robust litigation docket at the ACLU, Gupta
created and led the organization’s Smart Justice Campaign aimed at ending mass
incarceration while keeping communities safe.
Gupta graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and received her law
degree from New York University School of Law, where later she taught a civil rights
litigation clinic for several years.
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www.smartoncrime.usDOUGLAS HAUBERT @DougHaubert1
City Prosecutor
CITY OF LONG BEACH (CA)
Doug Haubert is a skilled attorney with 19 years of experience as a civil and criminal
prosecutor. He was elected Long Beach City Prosecutor in 2010, and re-elected in
2014 and 2018. After his election in 2010, Doug started Long Beach, California’s
Gang Prevention Strategy, a three-part approach to reducing gang violence. Using
technology to suppress gang activity, while also assisting former gang members with
social services, Haubert’s Gang Prevention Strategy has been called a “model” for
other cities, and “the most effective and innovative gang prevention strategy in use
today,” by Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell.
In addition to reducing gang violence, City Prosecutor Haubert also created the
Parent Accountability and Chronic Truancy (P.A.C.T.) program to prevent youth from
joining gangs in the first place. PACT, a partnership between the school district and
the City Prosecutor’s Office, focuses on intervention efforts to address chronic
truancy and improve parent engagement.
City Prosecutor Haubert is also recognized as a national leader in court diversion
programs. Recently, he launched a program to divert nonviolent, first-time offenders
out of court and into jobs and work-readiness programs. This pilot program, called
“Promising Adults, Tomorrow’s Hope,” or P.A.T.H., aims to improve employment
outcomes while reducing recidivism. Also, in 2016 Haubert’s Community Service
Worker (C.S.W.) diversion program was named “Best Neighborhood Program” in
America by Neighborhoods, USA. Other diversion programs Haubert has been
instrumental in creating involve pre-booking diversion of drug-addicted persons
(L.E.A.D., Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion), social services for sex trafficking
workers (D.S.P., Directed Services Program) and supportive housing for incarcerated
misdemeanants suffering from mental disorders or substance abuse (P.A.D., Priority
Access Diversion).
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www.smartoncrime.usJASON HERNANDEZ @jason121913
Soros Justice Fellow
OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION
Jason Hernandez, who was sentenced to life without parole for a nonviolent drug
crime, was one of the first individuals to receive clemency from President Barack
Obama in 2013. Since Jason's release from prison in 2015 he has become a leading
advocate to expand the clemency process and has assisted several prisoners
serving life sentences obtain clemency.
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www.smartoncrime.usMARK HOLDEN @FixCrimJustice
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
KOCH INDUSTRIES, INC.
Mark Holden serves as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate
secretary of Koch Industries, Inc. He is also president and COO of the Legal Division
of Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC, which provides legal, government and public
affairs services to Koch Industries, Inc. and its affiliates. In addition, he also serves as
Chairman of the Board of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, Inc. and serves
on the Board of Directors of Americans For Prosperity.
Mr. Holden began his career with Koch Industries in 1995 as a litigation attorney and
was vice president and general counsel for litigation and compliance. He has worked
with the various Koch companies on a variety of litigation, regulatory, compliance,
and commercial issues.
Mr. Holden earned a Bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of
Massachusetts. He earned his law degree from the Columbus School of Law at the
Catholic University of America.
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www.smartoncrime.usJAKE HOROWITZ @thejakehorowitz
Director, Public Safety Performance Project
2 THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS
Jake Horowitz directs Pew’s public safety performance project, which advances data-driven,
fiscally sound policies and practices in the adult and juvenile justice systems that protect
public safety, ensure accountability, and control corrections costs. In this role, Horowitz
leads the project’s research and policy portfolio, including technical assistance to states,
policy analysis and development, and public and policymaker education on justice issues.
Before joining Pew, Horowitz was a social science analyst with the U.S. Justice
Department’s National Institute of Justice. He has also served as a legislative fellow in the
U.S. House of Representatives and as a counselor and teacher with Eckerd Youth
Alternatives. Horowitz holds degrees from Reed College and Harvard University.
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www.smartoncrime.usDEANNA HOSKINS @JustLeadersUSA
President & CEO
JUSTLEADERSHIPUSA
DeAnna Hoskins is President of JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA). Dedicated to cutting
the US correctional population in #halfby2030, JLUSA empowers people most
affected by incarceration to drive policy reform. A nationally recognized leader and
dynamic public speaker, Ms. Hoskins leads with her own life experience having been
directly impacted by the system of incarceration and the war on drugs and with her
professional experience from the grassroots to federal government. She is inspired to
make the world more just with communities across the country, and for her three
children – two that have experienced the criminal justice system.
Prior to taking the helm at JLUSA, Ms. Hoskins was at the Department of Justice
where she joined under the Obama Administration. At the DOJ, she was the Senior
Policy Advisor (Corrections/Reentry) for the Department’s Bureau of Justice
Assistance Division. She managed the Second Chance Act portfolio where she
connected people and communities to resources through various partnerships and
collaborations and managed cooperative agreements between agencies. Prior to
joining the DOJ, Ms. Hoskins was the founding Director of Reentry for Ohio’s
Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners where she worked to reduce
recidivism by addressing individual and family needs; increased countywide public
safety for under-resourced communities of color; reduced correctional spending; and
coordinated social services to serve populations at risk that were impacted by
decades of generational disinvestment and deprived of first chances.
Ms. Hoskins is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio and holds a Master’s Degree in
Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor’s of Social Work
from the College of Mount St. Joseph. She is a Licensed Clinical Addictions
Counselor, a certified Workforce Development Specialist trainer for formerly
incarcerated people, a Peer Recovery Coach, and is trained as a Community Health
Worker.
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www.smartoncrime.usJULIENE JAMES
Director of Criminal Justice
THE LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION
Julie develops strategy and oversees investments to reform community supervision,
prisons, reintegration, and fines and fees and advance values of equity, fairness,
effectiveness, and racial justice. Before joining the Foundation, she served as senior
policy advisor for the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. In
that role, Julie managed work to safely reduce the use of solitary confinement; reform
sentencing, corrections, community supervision, and pretrial policies and practices;
and improve the implementation of risk assessment, among other projects.
Previously, Julie worked as a senior policy associate for the Vera Institute of Justice,
providing assistance to state and local policymakers on criminal justice policy and
implementation. Julie also practiced law at Wiggins, Childs, Pantazis, Fisher &
Goldfarb, representing clients who experienced discrimination in employment and
housing based on race, sex, and disability. In addition, she served as a judicial clerk
for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Julie earned a B.A. from
Harvard College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she
served as editor-in-chief of the NYU Law Review.
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www.smartoncrime.usVALERIE JARRETT @valeriejarrett
Senior Advisor
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Valerie Jarrett was the longest serving senior adviser to President Barack Obama.
She oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and
chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls. Before joining the White
House, she served as the chief executive officer of The Habitat Company in Chicago,
chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, commissioner of Planning and Development,
and deputy chief of staff for Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley. She is currently a
senior adviser to the Obama Foundation and Attn, a Senior Distinguished Fellow at
the University of Chicago Law School, and a board member at 2U, Ariel Investments
and Lyft.
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www.smartoncrime.usCANDICE JONES @ccjones235
President & CEO
PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION
Candice Jones is the President and CEO of the Public Welfare Foundation in
Washington, DC. Previously, she served as Senior Advisor at Chicago CRED, an
organization that focuses on gun violence in Chicago. In that role, she worked on
securing greater investments for violence intervention programs as an alternative to
the criminal justice system.
Prior to her work with Chicago CRED, she served as Director of the Illinois
Department of Juvenile Justice, a cabinet level state agency where she supervised
operations, programming, budget matters, and communications. During her tenure,
she pushed significant reforms that reduced the number of youth in state custody.
She also served as a White House Fellow, managing a portfolio within the U.S.
Department of Education that included developing education strategies for
correctional institutions and shepherding a plan to reinstate federal Pell grants for
youth and adults in custody. Earlier in her career, Candice served as a program
officer with the MacArthur Foundation, where she managed a grant portfolio focused
on decreasing racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system and on
improving the quality of defense for indigent youth. She currently serves on the board
of Cabrini Green Legal Aid, a Chicago-based civil legal service organization. Candice
received her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A. from
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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www.smartoncrime.usERSIE JOYNER III
Captain of Police
OAKLAND (CA) POLICE DEPARTMENT
Ersie Joyner was born and raised in Oakland and still resides in the city with his wife
and two kids. He attended Bishop O’ Dowd High School prior to attending Cal State
Hayward (Criminal Justice). After college, he joined OPD in 1991 and early in his
career he became a member of the narcotics enforcement team, working as an
undercover officer. He was then loaned to the FBI as an undercover case-agent,
cross-designated as a DEA agent for 18 months. As a Sergeant, he worked in the
Criminal Investigation Division as a Homicide Investigator. He created and
supervised the Targeted Enforcement Task Force which focused on violent
individuals to address violent crime and gang activity, using conventional and non-
conventional methods of enforcement. As a Lieutenant, he served as Section
Commander of Homicide and then Watch Commander in the Patrol Division.
As a Captain of Police, he served as an Area Commander prior to his current
assignment as the Commander responsible for Ceasefire. Along with Reygan
Cunningham, they are responsible for commanding/directing the City of Oakland’s
city-wide violent crime fighting strategy, an approach based upon the nationally
recognized, evidence-based “Operation Ceasefire” strategy that has produced multi-
year reductions in serious violence in a variety of cities across the country. They
provide guidance, strategy development, and coordination for the implementation of
this program involving the Mayor’s Office, OPD, community leaders, local clergy,
community-based organizations, Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and
state and federal law enforcement partners. Captain Joyner is a certified instructor
with POST and the ATF. He has instructed over 300 classes for agencies throughout
the US, including the FBI, POST and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
Captain Joyner was recognized as OPD’s Officer of the Year in 2002 and has
received a departmental record six medals of merit for his meritorious work.
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www.smartoncrime.usDAVID KENNEDY @DavidKennedyNYC
Director
NATIONAL NETWORK FOR SAFE COMMUNITIES
David M. Kennedy is the director of the National Network for Safe Communities, a
project of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Mr. Kennedy and
the National Network support cities implementing strategic interventions to reduce
violence, minimize arrest and incarceration, enhance police legitimacy, and
strengthen relationships between law enforcement and communities. These
interventions have been proven effective in a variety of settings by a Campbell
Collaboration evaluation, and are currently being implemented in Chicago, New
Orleans, Baltimore, Oakland, and many other cities nationwide.
Mr. Kennedy’s work has won two Ford Foundation Innovations in Government
awards, among many other distinctions. His latest book is Don’t Shoot, One Man, a
Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America.
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www.smartoncrime.usJIM KENNEY @JimFKenney
Mayor
CITY OF PHILADELPHIA (PA)
A lifelong City resident, Mayor Jim Kenney grew up the oldest of four children in a
South Philadelphia rowhome. On January 4, 2016, Jim was sworn in as the 99th
Mayor of Philadelphia. In his first budget, the Mayor worked closely with City Council
to fund bold anti-poverty initiatives to make progress for every neighborhood. Right
now, nearly 2,000 children are in quality pre-k, eleven community schools launched
since last fall, and the work to rebuild our parks, rec centers, and libraries continues
— all because Philadelphia became the first major city to pass a tax on sweetened
beverages.
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www.smartoncrime.usJENNY KIM @jqk1974
Deputy General Counsel, Political Law &
VP, Public Policy
KOCH COMPANIES PUBLIC SECTOR, LLC
Jenny Kim is the Deputy General Counsel, Political Law and Vice President, Public
Policy for Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC, which provides services to Koch
Industries, Inc. and its affiliates. She serves on the Board for Cause of Action and is
an advisor the Safe Streets & Second Chances initiative. Prior to joining Koch, Ms.
Kim worked at Miller & Chevalier Chartered, and Crowell & Moring, LLP. Previously,
she was a Presidential Management Fellow at The White House Office of Counsel to
the President and Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency. Ms. Kim earned
a juris doctorate from Boston College Law School. She is a member of the bar in New
York, Massachusetts, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
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www.smartoncrime.usNANCY LA VIGNE @NLVigne
Vice President, Justice Policy
URBAN INSTITUTE
Nancy La Vigne is vice president for justice policy at the Urban Institute, where she
directs Urban's Justice Policy Center. La Vigne conducts research on prisoner
reentry, criminal justice technologies, crime prevention, policing, and the spatial
analysis of crime and criminal behavior. Her work appears in scholarly journals and
practitioner publications and has made her a sought-after spokesperson on related
subjects.
Before being appointed vice president, La Vigne was a senior research associate at
Urban, directing groundbreaking research on prisoner reentry. Before joining Urban,
La Vigne was founding director of the Crime Mapping Research Center at the
National Institute of Justice. She later was special assistant to the assistant attorney
general for the Office of Justice Programs within the US Department of Justice. She
has also been research director for the Texas sentencing commission, research
fellow at the Police Executive Research Forum, and consultant to the National
Council on Crime and Delinquency.
La Vigne was executive director for the bipartisan Charles Colson Task Force on
Federal Corrections Reform and was founding chair of the Crime and Justice
Research Alliance. She served on the board of directors for the Consortium of Social
Science Associations from 2015 through 2018. She has testified before Congress
and has been featured on NPR and in the Atlantic, New York Times, Washington
Post, and Chicago Tribune. La Vigne holds a BA in government and economics from
Smith College, an MA in public affairs from the LBJ School at the University of Texas
at Austin, and a PhD in criminal justice from Rutgers University.
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www.smartoncrime.usMARC LEVIN @maralevin
Vice President, Criminal Justice
TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION /
RIGHT ON CRIME
Marc A. Levin is the vice president of criminal justice at the Texas Public Policy
Foundation and Right on Crime. An attorney and accomplished author on legal and
public policy issues, Marc began the Foundation’s criminal justice program in 2005
This work contributed to nationally praised policy changes that have been followed by
dramatic declines in crime and incarceration in Texas. Building on this success, in
2010, Levin developed the concept for the Right on Crime initiative, a TPPF project
in partnership with Prison Fellowship and the American Conservative Union
Foundation. Right on Crime has become the national clearinghouse for conservative
criminal justice reforms and has contributed to the adoption of policies in dozens of
states that fight crime, support victims, and protect taxpayers.
Since 2005, Marc has published dozens of policy papers on topics such as
sentencing, probation, parole, reentry, and overcriminalization which are available on
the TPPF website. Levin's articles on law and public policy have been featured in
publications such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Texas Review of Law &
Politics, National Law Journal, New York Daily News, Jerusalem Post, Toronto Star,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle,
Washington Times, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Charlotte Observer, Dallas Morning
News, Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, San Antonio Express-News
and Reason Magazine.
In 1999, Marc graduated with honors from the University of Texas with a B.A. in Plan
II Honors and Government. In 2002, Marc received his J.D. with honors from the
University of Texas School of Law. Marc was a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow in
1996. He served as a law clerk to Judge Will Garwood on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit and Staff Attorney at the Texas Supreme Court.
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www.smartoncrime.usAMY LOPEZ @amyklopez1
Deputy Director
DC DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Ms. Lopez began her career as a public school teacher and then administrator in
Texas, her home state. She found her way into correctional education as the
Superintendent of Education for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and was later
recruited to initiate education reforms for the 160,000 inmates in the custody of the
Texas Department of Criminal Justice by the Windham School District. In 2016,
Obama-era Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates
recruited Ms. Lopez to build a school district within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In
May of 2017, the initiatives were no longer supported, and Ms. Lopez joined the DC
DOC family. She is a graduate of Texas Tech University, earned her M.Ed. from
Lubbock Christian University, and is currently a Doctoral candidate at Sam Houston
State University.
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www.smartoncrime.usEBONY MAHER
Academic Counselor
PRISONER REENTRY INSTITUTE, JOHN JAY COLLEGE
Ebony Maher is an Academic Counselor for College Initiative, PRI's college access
program for justice-involved students in New York. Ebony uses her own expertise and
experience as a community member to support others through their higher education
journey. Ebony is currently pursuing her MSW at York College.
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www.smartoncrime.usKAROL MASON @JohnJayPres
President
JOHN JAY COLLEGE
Over the course of her long career, John Jay College President Karol V. Mason has
been a legal pioneer and an exceptional voice for equality, fairness, and criminal
justice reform. She was a leader in the Obama Administration on juvenile justice
issues, bail reform and re-entry for individuals leaving prison, and in her distinguished
career at Alston & Bird LLP, she was the first African American woman elected as
chair of the management committee at any major national firm.
As United States Assistant Attorney General and head of the Department of Justice’s
Office of Justice Programs, Mason oversaw an annual budget of $4 billion to support
an array of state and local criminal justice agencies, juvenile justice programs, and
services for crime victims, and oversaw the National Institute of Justice and the
Bureau of Justice Statistics, among a wide range of other efforts. She led the
Department of Justice’s work to address the issue of community trust in the justice
system through a variety of programs including the National Initiative for Building
Community Trust and Justice, a partnership with John Jay College and other
academic institutions across the country designed to address lack of trust in the
criminal justice system.
Previously, Mason served as Deputy Associate Attorney General from 2009 to 2012.
She led the Office of Justice Programs from June 2013 to January 2017 after being
nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Mason spent
almost three decades at Alston & Bird, LLP, where she chaired the Public Finance
Group. She was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of North
Carolina from 2001 to 2009 and Vice Chair of that Board from 2007 to 2009. Mason
received an A.B. in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina, and a J.D.
from the University of Michigan Law School.
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www.smartoncrime.usDANIEL MULHERN
Director, Public Safety
CITY OF BOSTON (MA)
Daniel P. Mulhern is Senior Advisor to Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Director of the City
of Boston’s Office of Public Safety. Mulhern is responsible for establishing cross
agency and cabinet coordination to tackle the challenging and complex problems
that lead to and perpetuate violence.
Prior to joining the Walsh administration, Mulhern was a prosecutor for close to fifteen
years and a member of Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s Office for
more than a decade. As the chief of Conley’s Gang Unit and Safe Neighborhood
Initiative, Mulhern’s primary caseload consisted of gang-related homicides in
Boston. Among other responsibilities, he was tasked with the review and assignment
to a team of prosecutors all firearm related cases, all arrests involving gang-involved
defendants, and all non-fatal shootings, solved or unsolved. Mulhern came to
Conley’s office with experience built at the Middlesex County District Attorney’s
Office and the Office of Attorney General in Massachusetts. He was involved in the
Boston Reentry Initiative (‘BRI”) for over a decade and numerous other state and
county reentry efforts and a wide range of prevention and intervention work
throughout his career. He also served as a special assistant United States attorney
in federal court for a period of time during his tenure in the gang unit.
In 2009, Mulhern was part of a team from Boston awarded for community
collaboration by the United States Attorney General and in 2012, he received the
Robert H. Quinn Community Service Award in recognition of his unflagging
commitment to the residents of Boston, and particularly those in the neighborhoods
of Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury. He is a lifelong resident of the City of
Boston.
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www.smartoncrime.usVIVIAN NIXON @Vivian_Nixon_WW
Executive Director
COLLEGE & COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP
The Reverend Vivian Nixon is Executive Director of College and Community
Fellowship (CCF), an organization committed to removing individual and structural
barriers to higher education for women with criminal record histories and their
families. As a formerly incarcerated woman and prior CCF program participant, Rev.
Nixon is uniquely positioned to lead the charge to help justice-involved women and
their families have a better future. While incarcerated, Rev. Nixon spent time as a
peer educator for the adult basic education program at Albion State Correctional
Facility in New York. Following her release, she was ordained by the African
Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) and currently serves as an associate minister at
Mt. Zion AMEC in New York City.
She is a Columbia University Community Scholar and a recipient of the John Jay
Medal for Justice, the Ascend Fellowship at the Aspen Institute, the Soros Justice
Fellowship, and the Petra Foundation Fellowship. She is a co-founder of
the Education from the Inside Out Coalition (EIO), a collaborative effort to increase
access to higher education for justice-involved students and serves on the advisory
board of JustLeadershipUSA. Rev. Nixon holds a Bachelor of Science degree from
the State University of New York Empire College.
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www.smartoncrime.usJOSEPH NEFF @josephcneff
Staff Writer
THE MARSHALL PROJECT
Joseph Neff joined The Marshall Project as a staff writer in 2017. He previously
worked at The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., and The Associated Press. He was
a Pulitzer finalist and has won awards including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism
Award, the MOLLY National Journalism Prize, the Society of Professional Journalists'
Sigma Delta Chi and others. He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
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www.smartoncrime.usSTEVEN PACHECO @MrStevenPacheco
Co-Founder
CONNECTR
Steven Pacheco is a junior at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice majoring in
Social Thought. As a four-time inaugural fellow, he has worked with the Vera Institute
of Justice, the David Rockefeller Fund, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (Ron
Moelis Social Innovation Fellow), and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. For the
academic year of 2017 - 2018, Steven served as Vice President of Student Council.
Following his recent Echoing Green NYC Future of Work Social Innovation Challenge
victory, his primary focus is pushing forward ideas that will socioeconomically
empower formerly incarcerated people and justice-affected people alike.
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www.smartoncrime.usRANDY PETERSEN
Senior Researcher
TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION /
RIGHT ON CRIME
Randy Petersen is a senior researcher for Right on Crime and the Center for Effective
Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Petersen spent twenty-one years in
law enforcement in Bloomingdale, Illinois, working in patrol, investigations,
administration, and management. After retiring from the Bloomingdale Police
Department, Randy moved to Texas where he was an instructor and Director of the
Tarrant County College District Criminal Justice Training Center, one of the largest
police academies in the state. The academy was responsible for basic police training
for over forty different police agencies in the DFW Metroplex as well as in-service
training for current law enforcement officers from all over the country. He is currently
a senior researcher for Texas Public Policy Foundation and Right on Crime, focusing
on policing issues.
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www.smartoncrime.usJOHN PFAFF @johnfpfaff
Professor of Law
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
John Pfaff is a Professor of Law where he teaches criminal law, sentencing law, and
law and economics. Before coming to Fordham, he was the John M. Olin Fellow at
the Northwestern University School of Law and clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams
on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
Professor Pfaff's research focuses primarily on empirical matters related to criminal
justice, especially criminal sentencing. He has paid particular attention to trying to
understand the causes of the unprecedented 40 year boom in US incarceration
rates. His recent work has illuminated the previously-underappreciated role that
prosecutorial discretion has played in driving up prison populations.
The second looks at how to incorporate evidence based practices into the judicial
review of scientific and empirical evidence. For his work on this issue Professor Pfaff
received a two-year grant from the John Templeton Foundation and the University of
Chicago's Arete Initiative for the study of wisdom.
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www.smartoncrime.usJONATHAN RAPPING @JRapping
President & Founder
2 GIDEON'S PROMISE, INC.
Jonathan Rapping is a nationally renowned criminal justice innovator and 2014
MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellow, who moved from Washington, D.C. to
Atlanta, because he found the injustice within our criminal justice system –
particularly in the South – to be unacceptable.
In 2007, Rapping founded Gideon’s Promise and began an initiative to change the
public defense landscape across America by grooming a generation of public
defenders – many of whom are often so overwhelmed by crushing caseloads that
they are unable to provide their clients the representation the Constitution demands –
to rise up and fight against the injustice within our justice system. In his quest to train
and equip public defenders with the resources necessary to ensure all citizens
receive their Constitutional right of “equal justice for all,” Rapping and his
organization have become symbols of a new civil rights movement.
Professor Rapping received a J.D. from the George Washington University School of
Law, a M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a B.A.
from the University of Chicago. He is currently a Professor at Atlanta’s John Marshall
Law School.
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www.smartoncrime.usSCOTT ROBERTS
Senior Campaign Director
COLOROFCHANGE
Scott Roberts Joined ColorOfChange in fall 2015 as is an Senior Campaign Director,
Criminal Justice. He is an organizer and strategist committed to ending mass
incarceration. A native of Emporia, VA, he credits his passion for organizing and
racial justice to his upbringing in a family that has been engaged in the local civil
rights struggle in Southside Virginia for four generations and engaged him in politics
at an early age. Before shifting his focus to full-time organizing, Scott studied political
science at Morehouse College and the University of Chicago. Scott has worked as an
organizer and strategist on electoral and issue campaigns including the 2008 Obama
campaign and efforts for worker’s rights, healthcare, marriage equality, immigrant
rights and democratic reform.
In his most recent position as Sr. Campaign Manager at Advancement Project, Scott
collaborated with local grassroots organizations across the country on issues of
criminalization. In addition, he led trainings for over 1,000 organizers working on
school-to-prison pipeline issues over the last 4 years. In 2013, Scott co-founded
Freedom Side, a national network of youth of color organizers focused on racial
justice issues.
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www.smartoncrime.usJEFFERY ROBINSON @jeff_robinson56
Deputy Legal Director, Director of Trone Center
for Justice and Equality
ACLU
Since graduating from Harvard Law School, Jeff Robinson has three decades of
experience working on criminal and racial justice and reform issues. First, as a public
defender representing indigent clients in state and then federal court in Seattle. Then,
in private practice in Seattle at Schroeter, Goldmark & Bender where he represented
a broad range of clients on charges ranging from shoplifting to securities fraud and
first degree murder. He has tried over 200 criminal cases to verdict and more than a
dozen civil cases representing plaintiffs suing corporate and government entities. Jeff
was one of the original members of the John Adams Project, enabling him to work on
behalf of one of five men held at Guantanamo Bay charged with the 9-11 attacks.
Jeff is also a respected teacher of trial advocacy. He has lectured on trial skills all
over the United States. Since 2012, Jeff has done work to educate himself and
others about little known facts of the history of America’s practice of white supremacy
related to African Americans. He speaks to diverse audiences across the country on
the role of race in the criminal justice system and beyond. In 2015, Jeff joined the
ACLU National office in New York where he continues this important work.
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