Our People

Board of Directors

  • Martha King

    Chair
    Program Director
    Charles H. Revson Foundation

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  • William Snipes

    Vice Chair
    Retired Partner
    Sullivan and Cromwell

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  • Kenneth Henderson

    Treasurer
    Retired 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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  • 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
    Commissioner, NYC Department of Corrections

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  • Caitlin Sikes

    Board Member
    Deputy General Counsel
    Jain Global

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  • Nicholas Smirensky, CFA

    Board Member

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Advisory Council Members

2025-2026

Featured
Kandra Clark, MPA

Director of Policy
Urban Pathways

Robert L. Cohen, MD

Retired Physician

Ronald F. Day

Chief Operating Officer
The Fortune Society

Natasha A. Frost

Professor and Associate Dean
Northeastern University

Mazen El Ghaziri PhD, MPH RN

Associate Professor & Associate Chair
UMass Lowell

Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr.

Associate Professor of History
Queensborough Community College / CUNY

David Pitts

Vice President, Justice & Safety
Urban Institute

Jhody D. Polk

Founder of the Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative
Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU School of Law

Hernandez D. Stroud

Senior Fellow
Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law

Clarence J. Sundram

Attorney
Trustee, van Ameringen Foundation

Rebecca Taxman

New York State & New York City Policy and Advocate Director
Tzedek Association

Alastair Whitehead

Executive Director, Global Security
JPMorgan Chase

2023-2024

Featured
Andrea Armstrong

Professor
Loyola University New Orleans

Rachael Bedard

Executive Director
Families United for Freedom

Jack Beck

Retired Director
Prison Visiting Project
Correctional Association of New York

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

Kirk "Jae" James

Clinical Assistant Professor
New York University

Michael Jacobson

Executive Director
Institute for State and Local Governance

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

James Walsh

Retired Deputy Commissioner
New York City Department of Correction

Rebecca Tublitz

Senior Research Associate
Institute for State and Local Governance

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

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