Our People

Board of Directors

  • Martha King

    Chair
    Senior Program Officer
    Charles H. Revson Foundation

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  • William Snipes

    Vice Chair
    Retired Partner
    Sullivan and Cromwell

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  • Kenneth Henderson

    Treasurer
    M&A Partner at
    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

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  • Arti Finn

    Secretary
    Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Orjjin

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  • Michelle Daniel

    Officer-at-Large
    Author and PhD candidate

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  • Wesley Caines

    Board Member
    Deputy Executive Director
    The Bronx Defenders

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  • Jessica Charles, PhD

    Board Member
    Director, Teacher Education Program and Assistant Professor of Education, Marist University

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  • Stanley Richards

    Board Member
    President & Chief Executive Officer
    The Fortune Society (Fortune)

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  • Caitlin Sikes

    Board Member
    Deputy General Counsel
    Jain Global

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  • Nicholas Smirensky, CFA

    Board Member

    Vice president of the board
    Chairs the Investment Committee

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Advisory Council Members
2023-2024

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

Co-Director
National Black Harm Reduction Network

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

Chief Counsel
Worth Rises

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