Board of Directors and Advisory Board
Board of Directors*
- Neelum Arya, President
Strategic Policy Director, FREEAMERICA
2013 Interview - Nora V. Demleitner, Director
Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
2016 Interview - Annette Johnson, Director
Senior Vice President and Vice Dean, General Counsel, NYU Langone Medical Center; Board member Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison - Daniel Kopf, Treasurer
Reporter, Quartz
2016 interview - Eric Lotke, Clerk
National Education Association, Strategic Research
Author of Making Manna.
2014 video - Bernadette Rabuy, Director
- Jason Stanley, Director
Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
2015 Interview
*Organizations for identification purposes only.
Advisory Board*
- Andrew Beveridge, Sociology, Queens College
- Alec Ewald, Political Science, University of Vermont
- Alex Friedmann, Prison Legal News
- Barbara Graves-Poller, NYC Law Department, Appellate Division
- Ruth Greenwood, Senior Redistricting Counsel, The Campaign Legal Center
- Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, plaintiff, Hayden v. Pataki
- Dale Ho, Director of Voting Rights Project, ACLU
- Daniel Jenkins, democracy activist, plaintiff, Longway v. Jefferson
- Bruce Reilly, Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement
- Brigette Sarabi, Partnership for Safety and Justice
- Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, University of Michigan
- Janice Thompson, Midwest Democracy Network
- Brenda Wright, Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
- Rebecca Young, Attorney
- Angela Wessels
In memory
- Nils Christie, Criminology, University of Oslo, Norway
- Jon E. Yount (1938 - 2012), organizer of Mixon v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
*Organizations for identification purposes only.
Recommended Reading:
50 state incarceration profiles
All of our recent reports about prison/jail growth, racial disparities, and more, re-organized by state.
Legal Resources for Incarcerated People
The internet's first always-up-to-date list of organizations that provide legal services and resources for incarcerated people, organized by state.
Exploitation in the criminal justice system
Companies and correctional facilities exploit captive markets. We expose them.
Prison Gerrymandering Project
We are leading the movement to protect our democracy from the Census Bureau's prison miscount.