Board of Directors
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Advisory Board
CEO, Nonprofit Finance Fund
Ces Butner
President/CEO, Speakeasy Ales & Lagers
Provost, Rutgers University and past Board Chair of National Council on Crime & Delinquency
Director, Government Affairs for the Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness
Counsel, National Center for Youth Law
President, Sierra Health Foundation
Director, CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance
Jennifer LeSar
Kathlyn Mead
Senior Fellow, NYU Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
Director, American Conservative Union Foundation’s Center for Criminal Justice Reform
President, Capius Consulting
Senior Research Scientist/Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Justice Lab
President and CEO, Ms. Foundation for Women
Academic Advisory Board
James Austin, Ph.D
President, JFA Institute
Provost, Rutgers University and past Board Chair of National Council on Crime & Delinquency
Director, CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies
Associate Professor, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice and Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.
Francine Sherman, J.D.
Clinical Associate Professor, Boston College Law School; and Director of the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project
Director of the Public Science Project and faculty in Critical Social Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center.
Food in Prison Advisory Board
Chef/ Owner, ThinkFoodGroup and Founder, World Central Kitchen
Co-Founder, National Black Food and Justice Alliance and National Director, MomsRising.org
Community Outreach Coordinator, TRANScending Barriers Atlanta
Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Executive Director, Incarceration Nations Network; Founder, Prison-to-College Pipeline
Founder and CEO, Brigaid
Author and Prison Reform Activist
Food Writer and Instructor, Culinary Institute of America-Greystone
Executive Director, Anti-Recidivism Coalition
Executive Director, Leah’s Pantry
Katherine Miller
Founding Executive Director, Chef Action Network
Puzzle Nesbitt
Program Associate for Criminal Justice Initiatives, Borealis Philanthropy