Board of Directors and Advisory Board
Board of Directors*
- Neelum Arya, Director
Research Director, Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law
2013 Interview - Nora V. Demleitner, President
Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Borden Visiting Professor, Marquette University Law School (2016-17)
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 - 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.
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