Our People

Board of Directors

  • Reverend Stephen H. Phelps

    Chair
    Retired Minister

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  • William Snipes

    Vice Chair
    Retired Partner
    Sullivan and Cromwell

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  • Rich Foudy

    Treasurer
    Retired CEO of
    National Decision Systems (NDS)

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  • Kenneth Henderson

    Secretary
    M&A Partner at
    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

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  • Wesley Caines

    Officer
    Deputy Executive Director
    The Bronx Defenders

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  • Martha King

    Officer
    Senior Program Officer
    Charles H. Revson Foundation

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  • Jessica Charles, PhD

    Board Member
    Associate Dean of Research and Innovation at Bank Street Graduate School of Education

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  • Michelle Daniel

    Board Member
    Author and PhD candidate

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  • Arti Finn

    Board Member
    Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Orjjin

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  • Jay Wardle

    Board Member
    President and General Manager of Adara

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Advisory Council Members

Featured
Andrea Armstrong

Professor
Loyola University New Orleans

Jack Beck

Retired Director
Prison Visiting Project
Correctional Association of New York

Rachael Bedard

Executive Director
Families United for Freedom

John Brickman

Partner
McLaughlin & Stern, LLP

Robert Cohen, MD

Board Member
NYC Board of Correction

Mylan Denerstein

Litigation Partner
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Tracie Gardner

Vice President of Policy Advocacy
Legal Action Center

Michael Jacobson

Executive Director
Institute for State and Local Governance

Kirk "Jae" James

Clinical Assistant Professor
New York University

Yolanda Johnson-Peterkin

Executive Director of Housing Initiatives
Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice

Julio Medina

Union Fellow for the Reentry and Reintegration of Returning Citizens
Union Theological Seminary

Karen Murtagh

Executive Director
Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York

Michael Mushlin

Professor of Law
Elisabeth Haub School of Law
Pace University

Marta Nelson

Director of Government Strategy, Advocacy, and Partnership
Vera Institute of Justice

Sam Rivera

Executive Director
Washington Heights CORNER Project and New York Harm Reduction Educators

Stefen R. Short

Acting Deputy Director, Prisoners’ Rights Project

The Legal Aid Society

Alethea Taylor

Executive Director
Hour Children

Rebecca Tublitz

Senior Research Associate
Institute for State and Local Governance

James Walsh

Retired Deputy Commissioner
New York City Department of Correction

Andre Ward

Executive Director
Institute for Justice & Opportunity
at John Jay College.

Sharon White-Harrigan

Executive Director
Women’s Community Justice Association

Jessica Yager

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
STAR Program/SUNY Downstate Medical Center