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Table of Contents
• Judge Jonathan Lippman (Chair)
• Richard Aborn
• Greg Berman
• Juan Cartagena
• Judge Matthew D’Emic
• Mylan L. Denerstein
• Robert Bishop Fiske Jr.
• Colvin w. Grannum
• Dr. Michael P. Jacobson
• Seymour W. James, Jr.
• Hon. Judy Harris Kluger (Ret.)
• Peter J. Madonia
• Julio Medina
• ANA L. OLIVEIRA
• Rocco A. Pozzi
• Laurie Robinson
• STANLEY RICHARDS
• Hon. Jeanette Ruiz
• Peter G. Sasmuels
• Herbert Sturz
• Dr. Alethea Taylor
• Jeremy Travis
• Nicholas Turner
• Darren Walker
• Kenneth H. Zimmerman
 Judge Jonathan Lippman (Chair)
- Former Chief Judge of the State of New York and Chief
Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Of
Counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP

Lippman is a Manhattan native. He attended New York City public schools, including Stuyvesant High School,
graduated from New York University (NYU) in 1965, and received his law degree from the New York University
School of Law in 1968.
In 1989, he became the deputy chief administrator for management support of the New York State court system,
responsible for the day-to-day management. In 1995, then-Governor George Pataki appointed Lippman as judge of the
New York Court of Claims. In 1996, Lippman became New York's chief administrative judge.He served in that
capacity for 11 years until 2007, the longest anyone has spent in that position. In 2005, he was elected to the State
Supreme Court for a 14-year term. In May 2007, then-Governor, Eliot Spitzer, appointed Lippman to the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department.

On January 13, 2009, Governor David Paterson appointed Lippman to the position of Chief Judge of the New York
Court of Appeals. Lippman was chosen from a list provided to Paterson by the New York Commission on Judicial
Nomination, in a process that drew scrutiny in 2008 when the commission did not refer any female or minority
candidates to the governor for selection.Lippman was confirmed in his position by voice vote of the State Senate on
February 12, 2009.He succeeded Judith Kaye, who served as the state's first female Chief Judge from 1993 to 2008.

Much of Lippman's career in the justice system in New York has been in administrative roles. He has been credited
with persuading the state legislature to double the financing of the court system and pass other reform measures
creating special purpose courts and updating the jury system. Justice Lippman wrote a summary of this work in
January 2009 in the New York Law Journal.His resume as an appellate judge has been described as "thin," but in the 20
months that he was Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, First Department he presided over more than 2,000
cases and wrote 14 opinions.
Under Chief Judge Lippman, the number of non-unanimous rulings made by the Court of Appeals has been on the
rise. According to the court, unanimous rulings declined from about 82 percent during 2008, Judge Kaye’s final year,
to 69 percent in Judge Lippman’s first year.

When wearing his hat as Chief Judge of the State of New York, Lippman has been a consistent advocate for increased
attention to civil legal services. In addition to creating the Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New
York, he has increased funding to civil legal services, enacted mandatory pro bono requirements for law students, and
proposed making attorney pro bono reporting requirements public to encourage greater participation. These proposals
have been somewhat controversial and the plan to make pro bono hours public has not been enacted.

Lippman stepped down as Chief Judge on December 31, 2015, having reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.
 Richard Aborn
- President of the Citizens Crime Commission of New
York City

He is the president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, a partner in the law firm Constantine
Cannon, and the managing director of Constantine & Aborn Advisory Services (CAAS) where he works with large
urban police departments and criminal justice agencies in the United States and Europe.

Aborn was born in New York in 1952 and attended the University of Dubuque before studying at John Marshall
Law School.
While on leave from his position in 2009 he was a candidate for Manhattan District Attorney.[4] His list of
endorsements included Congressman Jerry Nadler, Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, State Senators Eric
Schneiderman and Eric Adams, Assembly persons Jonathan Bing, Deborah Glick, Richard Gottfried, Brian
Kavanagh, Daniel O'Donnell, Linda Rosenthal and Michelle Schimel, and gun control organizations the Brady
Campaign, Gun Free Kids, Million Mom March and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. He lost the election to Cy
Vance.
In 1979 Aborn became an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's office under Robert M.
Morgenthau.[5] In the District Attorney's office he prosecuted felonies, including homicides, until 1984 when he
began the law firm of Aborn and Anesi.[6]
From 1992-1996 Aborn served as the president of Handgun Control Inc. (now the Brady Campaign)[7] and was a
principal strategist behind the passing of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act as well as the Federal Assault
Weapons Ban. Aborn also served as the president of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence.[6]
In 1999 Aborn was commissioned by the New York City Public Advocate to conduct an investigation of the NYPD's
disciplinary system and its response to civilian complaints of misconduct. On behalf of the Public Advocate, he also
investigated NYPD's disciplinary decisions in the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo.[8]
In 2001 Aborn served as the senior law enforcement advisor to the Democratic mayoral nominee. During that
campaign he developed criminal justice policies for New York City including the establishment of a "311" program
which Mayor Michael Bloomberg implemented.
 Greg Berman
- Director of the Center for Court Innovation

Greg is the director of the Center for Court Innovation. Part of the founding team responsible for creating the Center,
he has helped guide the organization from start-up to an annual budget of more than $50 million. He has accepted
numerous national awards on behalf of the Center, including the Peter F. Drucker Award for Non-profit Innovation.
He is the author/co-author of Start Here: A Roadmap to Reducing Mass Incarceration (The New Press, 2018),
Reducing Crime, Reducing Incarceration: Essays on Criminal Justice Innovation (Quid Pro Books, 2014), Trial & Error
in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure (Urban Institute Press, 2010) and Good Courts: The Case for
Problem-Solving Justice (The New Press, 2005). He has contributed to numerous books and periodicals, including The
Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, The Judges Journal (guest editor), New Statesman, The Guardian,
Huffington Post, National Law Journal, and Chronicle of Philanthropy. Prior to being named director of the Center
for Court Innovation in 2002, he served as deputy director of the Center and as the lead planner of the Red Hook
Community Justice Center. In the early 1990s, while working for the New York Foundation, he created the New York
Common Application, a universal form designed to expedite the foundation grant proposal process for community
groups in the New York area. He has also worked in development (New Israel Fund) and as a freelance journalist
(Providence Journal). He has served on numerous boards and task forces including: New York City Board of
Correction (appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg), New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Wesleyan Center for
Prison Education, Coro New York, Centre for Justice Innovation (chair), Sloan Public Service Awards, Poets House,
Police Foundation, Mayor Bill de Blasio public safety transition team, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance
transition team and the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform. He
is a graduate of Wesleyan University and a former Coro Fellow in Public Affairs.
 Juan Cartagena
- President and General Counsel of Latino Justice PRLDEF

Juan is President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF. He is a constitutional and civil rights attorney who
has vast experience litigating cases on behalf of Latino and African American communities in the areas of employment
rights, language rights, voting rights, public education financing, environmental law, housing and access to public
hospitals.

He formerly served as General Counsel and Vice President for Advocacy at the Community Service Society of New
York. At CSS he also directed the Mass Imprisonment & Reentry Initiative which focuses on the effects these
policies have on poor and minority communities. From 1990 to 1991 he worked at the government of Puerto
Rico's Department of Puerto Rican Community Affairs in the United States where he served as Legal Director.
Previously, he was Associate Counsel at the Community Service Society and before that he worked as a Staff
Attorney at the former Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund (now LatinoJustice PRLDEF).
Mr. Cartagena is a former Municipal Court Judge in Hoboken, NJ. Since 2005, Mr. Cartagena serves as General
Counsel to the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University School of Law, Mr. Cartagena lectures on
constitutional and civil rights issues at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. He has written numerous articles on
constitutional and civil rights laws, and has been recognized for his work on the political representation of poor and
marginalized communities – especially Puerto Rican and Latino communities. His current research interests
include the effects of mass imprisonment on Latino, and particularly Puerto Rican, communities, unlawful trespass
arrests as an element of the NYPD’s stop and frisk practices, and employment discrimination issues affecting
persons with previous criminal histories.
His work on a national level with the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act and the Help
America Vote Act led to invitations in 2005-2006 to testify before the U.S. House and Senate on the
reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act and its effects on Latino communities in New York and New Jersey.
Mr. Cartagena has served on numerous boards of community-based organizations and government task forces in
New York and New Jersey, including, most recently, Governor Paterson’s Task Force on Transforming New York
State’s Juvenile Justice System and Governor Corzine’s Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Immigrant Policy.
He has received numerous awards for his contributions to the field of civil rights law, among them the Freedom
Fighter Award, Jersey City NAACP, 1986; Liberty Bell Award, Superior Court of New Jersey – Hudson Vicinage;
Hudson County Bar Association, 2003; Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice Award, Dartmouth College, 2004;
2006 Professional Lawyer of the Year Award, New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law, Hispanic Bar
Association; Felix A. Fishman Award, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, 2006; Legal Services Award, New
York City Bar Association, 2008
Mr. Cartagena lives with his family in Jersey City. He is active in various community activities including cultural
activities that highlight the diversity of Jersey City’s neighborhoods.
 Judge Matthew D’Emic
- Presiding Judge of the Brooklyn Mental Health Court
and Administrative Judge for Criminal Matters,
Brooklyn Supreme Court

Matthew is a graduate of Fordham University and Brooklyn Law School. He was appointed to the bench in 1996. In
March, 2014 he was appointed Administrative Judge for Criminal Matters in the Second Judicial District Supreme
Court. In addition to his administrative duties, Judge D’Emic continues to preside over the Brooklyn Domestic
Violence Court and Brooklyn Mental Health Court. Judge D’Emic is a member of the New York State Judicial
Committee on Women in the Courts and a past chair of the Supreme Court Gender Fairness Committee.

He is co-chair of the Alternatives to Incarceration and Diversion Committee of the American Bar Association. He also
served on Mayor Bloomberg’s Steering Committee of the Citywide Justice and Mental Health Initiative and Mayor De
Blasio's Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Task Force. Judge D’Emic has been recognized for his work in domestic
violence and mental health and frequently lectures on these topics. He is also an adjunct professor of clinical law at
Brooklyn Law School.

He has presided over the Brooklyn Domestic Violence Court since 1997 and the Brooklyn Mental Health Court since
2002, and has been recognized for his work in domestic violence by the Justice Department, the Brooklyn Women's Bar
Association and the Lawyers Committee against Domestic Violence. His work in mental health has been acknowledged
by the New York State Psychiatric Association and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, among others.

While outsiders pay tribute to his successes, D'Emic, 59, is very much aware of his losses. Symbolic of these is the suicide
of a 24-year-old man whose funeral D'Emic attended and whose story he shared in an essay titled "Requiem for Rene: a
suicide lament."
 Mylan L. Denerstein
- Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Mylan is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ms. Denerstein is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s
Public Policy Practice Group and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations, Securities Litigation,
Appellate and Crisis Management Practice Groups.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Denerstein served as Counsel to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo. In this
role she acted as the Governor’s chief counsel and principal legal advisor.

Ms. Denerstein handles a broad range of complex litigation, as well as white collar, legislative and investigation matters.
She represents diverse companies confronted with a wide range of legal issues involving local, state and federal
government, from New York City Sanitation Department, New York Attorney’s General’s Office, New York State
Department of Financial Services, New York State Governor’s Office, to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
among others.

From 2007 to 2010 during the administration of then-Attorney General Cuomo, she served as the Executive Deputy
Attorney General for Social Justice and managed approximately 100 attorneys statewide working in the areas of
charities, civil rights, environmental protection, health care, labor and tobacco companies. From 2003 to 2007, she
served as Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs for the New York City Fire Department where she was the highest
ranking woman and African-American. From 1996 to 2003, Mylan served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s
Office for the Southern District of New York, first as Assistant U.S. Attorney, prosecuting complex securities, insurance
fraud, money laundering and organized crime cases, and then as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, where she
assisted in managing over 100 Assistant U.S. Attorneys.

Ms. Denerstein was named as one of New York Law Journal’s 2016 "Top Women in Law." Ms. Denerstein received The
Work & Family Legal Center’s Distinguished Public Service Award in May 2016 from A Better Balance for her work on
the Women’s Equality Act; was The Association of Black Women Attorneys’ Professional Achievement Honoree in
April 2015; and was the Citizens Union of the City of New York’s Public Service Award Honoree in October 2015 for
her leadership helping to enhance the vitality of New York City.

Ms. Denerstein is a member of the Association of Black Women Attorneys, New York City Bar Association, National
Bar Association, New York State Bar Associate, and Metropolitan Black Bar Association. She serves on the Boards of the
American Red Cross, Greater New York, Sanctuary for Families and Vera Institute for Justice.

Ms. Denerstein graduated in 1993 from Columbia Law School, where she was named a Charles Evans Hughes Fellow
for outstanding commitment to public service and was a recipient of the Jane Marks Murphy Prize for exceptional
proficiency and advocacy in clinics.
 Robert Bishop Fiske Jr.
- Senior Counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and former
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New
York

Robert is a trial attorney and a partner with the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City. He was the
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1976 to 1980 after earlier having served as an
assistant in the office from 1957 to 1961.

Attorney General Janet Reno appointed Fiske as the special prosecutor to investigate the Whitewater controversy and
the death of White House Counsel Vince Foster in January 1994. Fiske conducted investigations, and released an
interim report on June 30 that in summary concluded that President Bill Clinton and White House officials had not
interfered with the Resolution Trust Corporation, which was investigating the failed Madison Guaranty Savings &
Loan, a partner of the Whitewater Development Corporation. Fiske's report also concluded that Vince Foster
committed suicide. On the same day that Fiske released this report, President Clinton signed the Independent Counsel
Reauthorization Act of 1994, effectively abolishing the position of Special Prosecutor and replacing it with the
position of Independent Counsel. Under the new law, the Special Division had sole authority to select Independent
Counsels. Janet Reno formally requested that Robert Fiske be chosen, and allowed to continue his investigation. On
August 5, the Special Division, headed by Judge David Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit, decided to replace Fiske with former Washington D.C. Circuit judge Kenneth Starr.

Fiske is a senior law partner at Davis Polk, where he has represented many high-profile clients. He defended the
National Football League in an antitrust suit brought by the United States Football League. He represented Clark
Clifford and Robert A. Altman, who were top executives of First American bank until they stepped down facing
investigations by regulators and prosecutors regarding their roles in the BCCI scandal.

He headed the legal team defending Exxon in New York and New Jersey investigations of the oil spill that dumped
567,000 gallons of oil into Arthur Kill, New Jersey. The deal reached with the state of New Jersey allowed Exxon to
plead guilty to a one-count federal misdemeanor and pay a fine over $10 million. Additionally, New York and New
Jersey state prosecutors were prevented from seeking indictments and no action was to be taken against the four Exxon
officers under investigation. He defended A. Alfred Taubman of Sotheby's, who was charged with conspiring to violate
antitrust laws by engaging in price-fixing with rival Christie's. He also defended Sanjay Kumar of Computer Associates
International, Inc. who was charged with securities fraud and obstruction of justice.

Fiske is a past president of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Federal Bar Council. He is a recipient of the
Association Medal from the New York City Bar Association.

An alumnus of the Pomfret School he has a BA from Yale University (1952), and a JD from the University of
Michigan (1955), where he was associate editor of the law review.

Fiske is the uncle of Gap brand CEO Neil Fiske.

 Colvin w. Grannum
- President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bedford
Stuyvesant Restoration Corp

Colvin W. Grannum is President and Chief Executive Officer of Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, since
2001. Previously, Mr. Grannum served as Chief Executive Officer at Bridge Street Development Corporation. Prior to
his career in community development, Mr. Grannum practiced law for more than 17 years. Mr. Grannum earned an
undergraduate degree from University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Mr. Grannum's legal background and expertise in community development in New York City offers Carver a greater
depth of understanding on the Bank's market area and the needs of the changing communities that it serves..

Since 2001, Grannum has headed the leadership of Restoration, the nation’s first community development
corporation. Grannum has long believed that the arts can play a valuable role in building public morale and civic
pride, inspiring residents of low-income communities to look beyond their circumstances and aspire to excellence,
both in their personal lives as well as on behalf of their community.

Under his guidance, the Center for Arts & Culture at Restoration has grown to be an oasis of creative arts in
Brooklyn, attracting over 40,000 patrons each year and offering a rich array of programming across multiple artistic
platforms, including music, theater, visual arts, film, the spoken word and dance.

Among its recent programming highlights was a 50-year retrospective of the works of Otto Neals, a Brooklyn-born
sculptor who has dedicated his life to exploring the artistic heritage of the African diaspora and currently, Project
Protest: The Art of Revolution, an 8-week-long exhibit that showcases how art, in all of its multi-disciplinary forms,
can disrupt, elucidate, fire up and ultimately transform a society’s direction..

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Grannum also earned a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University
Law Center. Before coming to the world of nonprofits, he enjoyed a long and successful career in public interest and
corporate law. He serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Local Initiatives Support Corporation,
Carver Federal Savings Bank, Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center, Inc., New York City
Workforce Investment Board, and Center for New York City Neighborhoods.

He has served on the board of directors of the New York City Housing Development Corporation, and the advisory
boards of New York City’s Human Resources Administration and Department of Consumer Affairs. In addition, he
is a convener for the Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford Stuyvesant, and a member of several advisory boards
including JPMorgan Chase & Company and Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group.

“With his many years of dedication to neighborhood development, Colvin Grannum brings an important perspective
to the Board on how to better serve new and existing audiences, and I look forward to working with him,” said
Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Museum.
 Dr. Michael P. Jacobson
- Executive Director of the CUNY Institute for State &
Local Governance and Chairman of the Board of the New
York City Criminal Justice Agency

Michael is the founder and director of the Institute for State and Local Governance at the City University of New
York (CUNY).He is also the chair of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency.

Jacobson received his Ph.D. in sociology from Graduate Center, CUNY. In 1984, he began working at the New York
City Office of Management and Budget, where he became the deputy budget director before leaving in 1992. That
same year, he became New York City's probation commissioner, a position he held until 1996. From 1995 to 1998, he
also served as New York City's Correction Commissioner. From 1998 to 2005, he was a professor at the John Jay
College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY-Graduate Center. In January 2005, he became the fourth director of the
Vera Institute of Justice, replacing Christopher Stone. Jacobson held this position until joining CUNY in May 2013
to help found their Institute for State and Local Governance.

Doctor/Professor Michael P. Jacobson, a founding NYCHS trustee and its first president, teaches at the City
University of New York Graduate Center and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law,
Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration.

Even while serving as Correction Commissioner, Prof. Jacobson was also on the Graduate Faculty of the Wagner
School of Public Administration at New York University, where he taught courses on public policy analysis and
governmental budgeting. He has a Ph.D in Sociology from the CUNY Grad Center.

Commissioner Jacobson retired from government administration Dec. 31, 1997, and took on his academic posts at
the Grad Center and John Jay. He had been appointed as Correction Commissioner on March 30, 1996, by Mayor
Rudolph W. Giuliani after serving as Acting Correction Commissioner from January 24, 1995. While Acting
Correction Commissioner, he continued to serve as Commissioner of the New York City Probation Department,
having been appointed to that position on June 1, 1992.

For two decades, Dr. Jacobson has specialized in the field of criminal justice, particularly in the areas of financial
issues, technology initiatives, multi-agency operations and victims rights. He also is a member of the Vera Institute of
Justice Board of Trustees.

As Correction Commissioner, he oversaw an annual budget of more than $775 million, a uniformed and civilian
workforce of about 13,000, and an inmate population of more than 125,000 admitted yearly to the Department’s
sixteen jail facilities and three hospital prison wards.

During his tenure as Probation Commissioner, he was responsible for that Department’s $69 million annual budget,
1,600 employees and 97,000 probationers yearly.

Prior to his appointment as Probation Commissioner, he served as Deputy Budget Director at the City’s Office of
Management and Budget, where he worked for seven years. In that capacity, he had oversight responsibility for all
agencies in the City’s criminal, juvenile and civil justice areas. He previously served as Deputy Director of the Mayor’s
Arson Strike Force for five years, where he helped plan and coordinate the City’s anti-arson strategies.
 Seymour W. James, Jr.
- Attorney-in-Chief of The Legal Aid Society of New York

Seymour W. James, Jr., of New York City, took office on June 1 as the 115th president of the 76,000-member New York
State Bar Association. His one-year term ended June 1, 2013.

James is the attorney-in-charge of the Criminal Practice of The Legal Aid Society in New York City. In that capacity, he is
responsible for the Society's trial, parole revocation and appellate criminal practice.

Active in the State Bar since 1978, James most recently served for the past year as the Bar Association's president-elect. As
president-elect, James chaired the House of Delegates and co-chaired the President's Committee on Access to Justice. He
previously served three terms as treasurer.

He is a member of its House of Delegates, the Finance Committee, the Membership Committee, and the Special
Committee on Strategic Planning. Within the Criminal Justice Section, James serves as a member-at-large of its Executive
Committee.

He served as the vice president for the 11th Judicial District from 2004-2008 and on numerous committees, including the
Nominating Committee, the Special Committee on Association Governance, the Committee on Legal Aid, the
Committee on Attorneys in Public Service, the Task Force on Increasing Diversity in the Judiciary, and the Committee
on Diversity and Leadership Development. He is a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation.

James is a past president of the Queens County Bar Association and has served on its Judiciary Committee. He serves as a
member of the board of directors for the New York State Defenders Association and as a member of the Defender Policy
Group of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. He also is a member of the Macon B. Allen Black Bar
Association and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association.

A resident of Brooklyn, James received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and earned his law degree from
Boston University School of Law. He is married to Cheryl E. Chambers, a judge in the Appellate Division, 2nd
Department.
 Hon. Judy Harris Kluger (Ret.)
- Executive Director of Sanctuary For Families

The Hon. Judy Harris Kluger assumed the role of Executive Director of Sanctuary for Families Inc. in January
2014. Sanctuary is New York’s leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking,
and related forms of gender violence.

Since becoming Executive Director, Judge Kluger has secured substantial new sources of private and public funding,
growing the agency budget from approximately $15 million to over $24 million. Under Judge Kluger’s leadership,
Sanctuary launched the Queens Human Trafficking Intervention Court Pro Bono Project to assist immigrant sex
trafficking victims; oversaw the move of Sanctuary’s headquarters to a new and better location; produced a five-year
report documenting the program model and achievements of Sanctuary’s innovative Economic Empowerment
Program; and developed a five-year strategic plan. The strategic plan will guide Sanctuary in its efforts to expand
high-need programming focused on advancing clients’ self-sufficiency, improve agency understanding of client needs
and impact of services, build survivor leadership, and advance Sanctuary’s strategic leadership in the movement to end
gender violence through sustained legislative advocacy and community outreach.

Sanctuary for Families provides survivors with a range of services including legal and clinical services (50 staff attorneys
and 36 masters-level social workers), economic empowerment support, shelter, and programming for children and
youth, all structured to help survivors rebuild their lives in the aftermath of abuse. Since Judge Kluger became
Executive Director, Sanctuary added fifty new staff positions to the organization and, last year, served nearly 16,000
individuals. 97% of Sanctuary’s clients are NYC residents, the vast majority live in poverty, and 71% of adult clients are
immigrants.

Prior to joining Sanctuary, Judge Kluger served for 25 years as a judge in New York State—most recently as Chief of
Policy and Planning for the court system. In addition to her role in system-wide court reform, policy development,
and implementation, Judge Kluger oversaw the statewide problem solving court program which included more than
300 Integrated Domestic Violence Courts, Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, Domestic Violence Courts, Drug
Courts, Mental Health Courts, Sex Offense Courts, and Community Courts.

Judge Kluger began her career as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County. As a young lawyer working in
Brooklyn in the late 1970s, she quickly became aware of the challenges and societal pressures that survivors of
domestic violence were facing in New York City. Motivated by these experiences, Judge Kluger became a founding
member and Bureau Chief of the Sex Crimes and Domestic Violence Bureau and Chief of the Criminal Court Bureau
soon thereafter. In 1988, Judge Kluger was appointed to the New York City Criminal Court. Additionally, she was a
key member of the development team and the first presiding judge at the Midtown Community Court, a project that
received national acclaim for its innovative handling of quality of life crimes and which began an era of development
of problem solving courts throughout the country.
Judge Kluger is an active member of numerous professional associations and is a frequent public speaker and
panelist. She is currently a member of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, The Independent
Commission on NYC Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, and the New York City Domestic Violence
Task Force. Judge Kluger also co-chairs the New York State Bar Association / the Women’s Bar Association of
the State of New York (NYSBA/WBASNY) Domestic Violence Initiative.

Judge Kluger has received many honors and awards including the New York Law Journal’s Lawyers Who Lead
by Example award; the New York State Bar Association Excellence in Public Service award; the Lawyer’s
Committee against Domestic Violence in the Trenches award; and Sanctuary’s Abely Award for Leading Women
and Children to Safety.
 Peter J. Madonia
- Former Chief Operating Officer of the Rockefeller
Foundation

Peter is an advisor and confidant to three New York City mayors, joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2006 as Chief
Operating Officer.

One of the nation’s largest and oldest private foundations, established in 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., The
Rockefeller Foundation works globally to promote the well-being of humanity. Madonia provides advice and counsel
to Judith Rodin, its President and the Board, in addition to leadership and strategic direction for programmatic,
financial and operational functions at the Foundation.

As COO, and a member of the Executive Team, Madonia leads portfolio management, providing strategic direction for
its programmatic work and is responsible for overseeing the monitoring and evaluation of the foundation’s varied
program work. In addition, he is responsible for managing the allocation of staff and financial resources across the
Foundation. He oversees a range of teams responsible for monitoring and evaluation, human and financial resources,
information technology, facilities and office services.

Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Madonia served as Chief of Staff to New York City Mayor Michael R.
Bloomberg, a position he was appointed to after serving as senior advisor to the Bloomberg for Mayor Campaign. As
Chief of Staff, he reported directly to the Mayor and was responsible for overseeing day-to-day-operations of most of
the city agencies responsible for delivering municipal services. He also oversaw all aspects of the Mayor’s Office,
including citywide services, appointments and fiscal and administrative affairs.

Madonia’s early experience in city government included serving as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Mayor for Operations,
First Deputy Commissioner of the Fire Department, and Deputy Commissioner for Budget and Operations at the
Department of Buildings.

Madonia also owned and operated a successful 100-year-old family bakery business for twelve years, and serves on the
boards of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Philanthropy New York, The Picture House,
Fordham University/WFUV Radio, Fordham University/Feerick Center for Social Justice and Dispute Resolution,
Jamaica Bay Rockaway Park Conservancy, PlaNYC Sustainability Advisory Board, Belmont Business Improvement
District. He has served as a trustee for Randall’s Island Park Alliance since 2009.

Madonia received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham University, where he has taught urban studies as an adjunct
professor. He has a Master’s degree in Urban Studies from the University of Chicago.
 Julio Medina
- Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Exodus
Transitional Community, Inc.

Julio is the Founder, Executive Director, & CEO of Exodus Transitional Community. While serving a 12-year sentence,
Mr. Medina witnessed the profound pain of his peers and their intense desire to transform their lives. Guided by his faith
in God and belief in his fellow man, Julio pledged to do all in his power to create a safe, supportive community for men
and women affected by the justice system. In 1999, Julio founded Exodus Transitional Community. Under his leadership,
Exodus has served over 10,000 participants and has become one of the most successful re-entry programs in the United
States.

As an advocate for personal transformation and systemic change, Julio travels to prisons across the northeast to meet with
the men and women he left behind, along with local policymakers to build coalitions around justice reform. Julio serves
on Governor Cuomo’s Council on Community Re-entry and Reintegration, which provides comprehensive,
evidence-based solutions for obstacles facing formerly incarcerated individuals returning to neighborhoods across New
York. He is also a prominent member of Judge Jonathan Lippman’s commission on the study of closing Rikers. Julio and
Exodus were highlighted in the 2004 Presidential State of the Union Address, and Julio was awarded the White House
Champions of Change Award in 2016. Julio and Exodus have been featured in the New York Times, the Economist,
C-Span, NY Newsday, The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and MSNBC , and Julio received the 2010 “El Award”
from El Diario La Prensa, which recognizes outstanding Latinos for their accomplishments and contributions to the
Latino community.

Julio holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Albany, a Master of Divinity from New
York Theological Seminary, and is presently a Doctoral candidate in Ministry.
 ANA L. OLIVEIRA
- President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York
Women’s Foundation

Ana L. Oliveira became the President & CEO of The New York Women’s Foundation in 2006. Under her leadership,
The Foundation has grown in several dimensions, establishing a new strategic plan, sponsoring landmark research
reports, increasing visibility and public awareness of The Foundation’s presence in NYC; and dramatically increasing
the impact of The Foundation, with the distribution of a record $5 million in grants in its 25th year, in 2012.

Ana has worked in the health and human services field for over 22 years, developing programs for vulnerable
populations throughout NYC. She served as the Executive Director of Gay Men’s Health Crisis for over seven years,
overseeing a complete turn-around of the agency. Before working at GMHC, Ana directed innovative
community-based programs at Samaritan Village, the Osborne Association, Kings County and Lincoln Hospitals. Ana
has served as a member of the New York City HIV Planning Council, in the New York City Commission on AIDS,
chaired the NYC Commission for LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless Youth, and, most recently, Co-Chaired Mayor
Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative.

Ana currently serves as a Co-Chair of the Board of the Women’s Funding Network.

In 2005, Ana was profiled in Newsweek as “America’s Best,” a series highlighting ordinary individuals using their
extraordinary vision on behalf of others.

Her awards feature: Mutual Welfare League Certificate, (Osborne Association); Liberty Award, (Lambda Legal &
Education Defense Fund); Community Service Award (Empire State Pride Agenda); the Rosie Perez Fuerza Award,
(Latino Commission on AIDS), and the New York City Civil Liberties Union Liberty Award, among others.

Ana was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and resides in Manhattan. She has an M.A. in Medical Anthropology
from the New School for Social Research. She has just been awarded an Honorary Doctor Degree by her alma matter.
 Rocco A. Pozzi
- Probation Commissioner, Westchester County
Department of Probation and former Commissioner
of the Westchester County Department of Correction

Commissioner, Westchester County Department of Probation, directs the activities of the Westchester County
Department of Probation and services provided by a large number of probation officers and correspondingly large
administrative and clerical force. He is a cabinet member and advisor to the County Executive on probation and
related criminal justice issues. Mr. Pozzi establishes and administers policies and procedures for the effective
operations of probation services in the County in accordance with established laws and regulations.

He develops and implements strategic prevention and intervention programs designed to enhance community
protection, provide service to the courts, victims, while attempting to rehabilitate juvenile and adult offenders. Mr.
Pozzi has created many innovative programs in the Westchester County Department of Probation including
specialized caseloads for Sex Offender, Domestic Violence, DWI and Mental Health. In addition to serving as
Commissioner of Probation for Westchester County, Mr. Pozzi served concurrently for ten years as the Westchester
County Commissioner of Corrections where he planned, directed, coordinated, and evaluated all programs and
activities of the Westchester County Department of Correction. In accordance with federal, state and local laws, Mr.
Pozzi formulated and implemented goals and objectives for the efficient operation of the department. Mr. Pozzi
began his professional career as a Probation Officer in 1973 with the Philadelphia County Adult Probation
Department rising through the ranks to Deputy Chief Probation Officer, a position he held from 1985 until he came
to Westchester in 1989. In this capacity, he directed the Field Services component numbering two hundred
professional and clerical employees. Mr. Pozzi is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Criminal Justice and of Temple University with a Master’s Degree in Public Administration with
emphasis on Judicial Administration. He has participated in numerous professional training programs sponsored by
the National Institute of Corrections and has also completed a course study for Senior Executives and State and Local
Governments at Harvard University. Mr. Pozzi is a Past President of the American Probation and Parole Association;
Past President of the Council of Probation Administrators; Past President of the National Association of Probation
Executives; and, appointed by Governor George Pataki to the New York State Probation Commission July 1997,
where he still serves as a member. Since 2003, Mr. Pozzi has been an Executive in Residence at Pace University. In this
capacity, he is an Advisor to the University concerning Probation and Correction matters. He serves as an adjunct
professor teaching courses in corrections, probation and parole. In 2016, former Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman
appointed Mr. Pozzi to the Independent Commission to Study Riker’s Island where he still serves in his capacity as
an expert in Corrections and Alternatives to Detention Programming.
 Laurie Robinson
- Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law
and Society at George Mason University and former Assistant
Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of
Justice Programs

Laurie Robinson serves as the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and has been involved in
national criminal justice policy for more than three decades. Reflecting that ongoing engagement, she was named by
President Obama in 2014 to co-chair the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing, set up to develop
recommendations in the wake of Ferguson on ways to build greater trust between law enforcement and citizens. She was
also appointed in 2014 to a Congressionally created body, the Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, charged with
examining crowding in the federal prison system, and was named in 2016 to an independent commission chaired by
former New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippmann in New York City to explore the potential for closing the city's
jail complex on Riker's Island.

Robinson twice served as a Senate-confirmed, Presidentially-appointed Assistant Attorney General for the U.S.
Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, the research, statistics and criminal justice assistance arm of the
Department. Her three years of service in the Obama Administration, coupled with seven years in the Clinton
Administration, make her the longest serving head of the agency in its 45-year history. Robinson’s recent tenure heading
the $2.5 billion agency was marked by a focus on science: She set up a Science Advisory Board, launched an initiative to
better integrate evidence into OJP’s programs, and created a “what works" clearinghouse for the criminal justice field.
Between her stints at DOJ, Robinson directed the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Science Program in
Criminology and served as a Distinguished Senior Scholar in Penn’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology.

During her first tenure at DOJ in the 1990s, she led the federal government’s engagement with states and localities on
community-based crime control. Her agency’s annual budget grew from $800 million in 1993 to over $4 billion in 2000
and she oversaw the largest increase in federal spending on crime-related research in the nation’s history. She also
spearheaded major federal initiatives on violence against women, drug treatment courts, and law enforcement
technology. She has frequently testified before Congress and has also served on a number of national boards, including
those of the Vera Institute of Justice (which she chaired from 2006 to 2009) and the Center for Naval Analysis (CNA), a
non-profit think tank. Robinson also serves as co-chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)'s
Research Advisory Committee and as a member of the Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ) of the National
Academies of Sciences (NAS).
 STANLEY RICHARDS
- Board Member of the New York City Board of
Corrections and Senior Vice President at The Fortune
Society, Inc.

Stanley Richards is the Executive Vice President of The Fortune Society (Fortune), a 50-year-old service and
advocacy non-profit organization based in New York City whose mission is to support successful reentry from prison
and promote alternatives to incarceration. Stanley is a formerly incarcerated man of color with decades of experience
in the criminal justice field. His professional experience began in 1991 at Fortune, where he initially worked as a
Counselor. Between 1997 and 2001, he served as the Deputy Director of Client Intervention at Hunter College
Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health. After returning to Fortune and receiving a series of promotions,
today, Stanley is the second-highest executive and has responsibilities in the overall management of Fortune and
oversight of all direct service programs. He also represents Fortune’s fundraising and advocacy work, having taken on
a leadership role in its David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy. Stanley was recognized by the Obama
administration as a Champion of Change for his commitment to helping individuals impacted by the justice system,
and also became the first formerly incarcerated person to be appointed by the City Council Speaker to the NYC
Board of Correction, a regulatory oversight body for setting minimum standards of care, custody and control of
people incarcerated in New York City jails. He currently serves on a number of other committees and boards as well,
including his appointment to the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration
Reform chaired by former NYS Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, which created and released a blueprint, “A More
Just New York City”, for the future of criminal justice in New York City; his appointment by Mayor de Blasio as
Co-Chair of the Working Group on Design, a subcommittee of the Implementation Task Force, to ensure effective
implementation of the “Smaller, Safer, Fairer: A Roadmap to Closing Rikers Island” initiative.
 Hon. Jeanette Ruiz
- Administrative Judge of the New York Family Court

Judge Jeanette Ruiz serves as the Administrative Judge of the New York City Family Court. Before assuming this
position, Judge Ruiz served as the Supervising Judge of Kings County Family Court from 2012 to 2015 and as
Deputy Administrative Judge of the New York City Family Court in 2015. Judge Ruiz was appointed Judge of the
New York City Family Court in 2007 and, prior to her appointment as Supervising Judge, Judge Ruiz presided over
Juvenile Delinquency, PINS and Child Protective cases in Bronx County Family Court and Kings County Family
Court.

Judge Ruiz has over 20 years of experience in the area of child welfare. She is a former social worker, litigator, and city
official. As General Counsel for a major nonprofit community-based child welfare agency, Judge Ruiz created its first
legal department and redesigned its adoption case-flow management to achieve permanency for children in its foster
care programs.

Judge Ruiz has extensive senior level management experience. After her appointment as a New York City Assistant
Corporation Counsel, Judge Ruiz served as Assistant Commissioner of the New York City Department of Business
Services where she implemented a citywide affirmative action mayoral initiative for procurement of city goods and
services. Judge Ruiz also served as Deputy General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner for the New York City
Administration for Children’s Services.

Judge Ruiz has also participated in numerous panel discussions focused on family law, and has been a presenter at the
New York State Judicial Institute on family law topics including “Rights of Non Respondent Parents in Article 10
cases” and “Juvenile Risk Assessment Instruments.”

Judge Ruiz is a member of the New York State Family Court Advisory and Rules Committee, a board member of the
Latino Judges Association and a member of the New York City and New York State Family Court Judges
Associations.

Judge Ruiz earned a Bachelor’s degree from Hunter College in New York City, a Master’s Degree from the Columbia
University School of Social Work and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
 Peter G. Sasmuels
- Partner at Proskauer Rose LLP

Peter G. Samuels is a partner in the Corporate Department, and served for six years as co-head of the Firm’s Mergers &
Acquisitions Group. Peter handles mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other complex transactions, and has broad
experience in serving as outside counsel for public companies. He advises on corporate governance and issues relating to
strategic considerations, affiliated party transactions, and related matters.

Among the clients that Peter regularly advises are Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., Grifols S.A. and Neuberger Berman.

Peter has been featured as the "Dealmaker in the Spotlight" by the American Lawyer. He is a frequent lecturer on mergers
and acquisitions and related topics, and has acted as chair and member of panels for the Practising Law Institute,
University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Wharton School, the European American Chamber of Commerce, the
Association of Corporate Counsel, and various other sponsors. He plays a leading role with respect to Proskauer’s pro
bono initiatives relating to various criminal justice programs, including reform of New York’s pretrial release and bail
systems and use of electronic devices to reduce incarceration. He serves on the Independent Commission on New York
City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Fedcap Rehabilitation
Services, Inc., where he is involved in many programs, including Fedcap's proposed initiative to reduce the number of
women detained in New York City's Rikers Island jail through a combination of employment and social service programs.
 Herbert Sturz
- Board Chair of the Center for New York City
Neighborhoods

Herbert Sturz is a senior advisor to the Open Society Foundations. For more than 50 years, Mr. Sturz has been a
powerful force for social innovation and change. He has created or played an instrumental role in creating more
than 20 nonprofit organizations including The Vera Institute of Justice; The Center for Court Innovation; The
Manhattan Bail Project; Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services; Project Renewal, which
provides affordable housing for the homeless; Safe Horizon, providing support for victims of abuse; and The
After School Corporation which offers 250 different after-school programs to 40,000 children in New York City.
For these and many other accomplishments, Mr. Sturz has been profiled in the recent book, A Kind of Genius:
Herb Sturz and society's Toughest Problems by New York Times reporter Sam Roberts.
Previously, Mr. Sturz was a Deputy Mayor to Mayor Edward Koch, Chairman of the New York City Planning
Commission, and worked on the editorial board of the New York Times.
He currently serves on the boards of Ashoka USA, The After School Corporation and the School of Public
Affairs, Baruch College.
 Dr. Alethea Taylor
- Professor and Director of Internship Development,
Hunter College School of Education - Department of
Educational Foundations and Counseling

Dr. Alethea Taylor, RhD, CRC is professor with Hunter College School of Education in the department of
Educational Foundations and Counseling. Dr. Taylor provides instruction along with developing internship sites.
Recently, Dr. Taylor served as the Executive Director with Greenhope Services for Women helping women with
substance use disorders who were formally incarcerated. She has 23 years of professional experience including staff
development, university teaching, serving women and youth, and working with the criminal justice community. Dr.
Taylor holds a doctorate in Rehabilitation Counseling from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, a Masters
from New York University in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling and is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor. In
2013, Dr. Taylor was selected as a Fellow of the New York University’s Research for Leadership in Action’s inaugural
IGNITE Fellowship for Women of Color in the Social Sector. Dr. Taylor has served as an adjunct professor at New
York University, NYACK College and The College of New Rochelle teaching courses such as research methods,
statistics, career counseling, and medical aspects of disabilities. As an educator, Dr. Taylor is constantly seeking
creative ways to foster a dynamic learning environment and promoting creative thinking in the classroom. She has
also conducted many presentations and seminars addressing topics such as substance use disorders, formerly
incarcerated women and reentry services.

On behalf of Greenhope Services for Women, she served as a liaison for the New York City Alternative to
Incarceration Coalition, a member of the NY County Behavioral Health Diversion Forum, and was also a member of
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive committee “Work for Success,” employment initiative for the formerly
incarcerated. She was also the co-chair of the Manhattan Recovery Community Coalition. She has served as a
member of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) Reentry Committee. Dr. Taylor is currently a
commission member of The Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration
Reform which is responsible for helping with New York City’s decision to close Rikers Island jail. She is also serving
on the the MOCJ Justice Implementation Task Force Working Group on Culture Change. The group advises on
policies to create a justice system where individuals in New York City jails interact in a safe and respectful
environment.

Education
Bachelors of Arts, Sociology, Minor, Women’s Studies – Stony Brook University
Masters of Arts, Vocational Rehabilitation – New York University
Doctor of Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation – Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
 Jeremy Travis
- Vice President of Criminal Justice at the Laura and John
Arnold Foundation. Former President of John Jay College of
Criminal Justice and former Director of the National Institute
of Justice

He became the fourth president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a senior college of the City University of New
York, on August 16, 2004. On October 25, 2016, Travis announced that he would step down from his position as
president the next year. In August 2017, he joined the Laura and John Arnold Foundation as Senior Vice President of
Criminal Justice

Travis received his B.A., cum laude, in American Studies from Yale College in 1970, and was the recipient of the C.
Douglas Green Memorial Prize in History and the Saybrook Fellows Prize. He received his M.P.A. from New York
University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service in 1977, and his J.D. from New York University School of Law
in 1982. He was elected to the Order of the Coif, and was a member of the New York University Law Review. He was
also the recipient of the John Norton Pomeroy Prize for academic achievement and the Arthur Garfield Hays
Fellowship in Civil Liberties.

Travis began his career working as a legal services assistant for the Legal Aid Society (1971–73). He worked for the
Vera Institute of Justice (1973–77), where he managed demonstration programs on bail reform and victim-witness
assistance, and directed the New York City Criminal Justice Agency (1977–79).

Early in his career, Travis served as law clerk to then-U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1982–83)
and was the Marden and Marshall Fellow in Criminal Law at New York University School of Law (1983–84). He was
appointed Special Counsel to the New York City Police Commissioner (1984–86), where he developed a new
recruitment program, the Police Cadet Corps, to attract more college-educated and racially diverse candidates as police
officers.

Travis served as a special advisor to then-New York City Mayor Edward Koch from 1986 to 1989. He has also served as
Chief Counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, (1990), before becoming the Deputy
Commissioner for Legal Matters in the New York City Police Department from 1990 to 1994, where he created the
Civil Enforcement Initiative, a program that combined civil and criminal remedies to address local crime conditions.

Nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate, Travis served as the Director of the National Institute
of Justice from 1994 to 2000, where he established major research initiatives to assess crime trends and bolster research
on anti-crime and counter-terrorism strategies. From 2000 until becoming president of John Jay College in 2004, he
was a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, where he created a national research program on
prisoner reentry.
Travis has served as Chair of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council (NRC) of the
National Academies. He also served as Chair of the NRC Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High
Rates of Incarceration, which produced a landmark report recommending significant reductions in the nation's
prison population. He is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Institute. In 2009, President Travis
served as Chair of the Task Force on Transforming Juvenile Justice, appointed by New York State Governor
David A. Paterson, which recommended significant changes to the state's juvenile justice system.

In 2016, Travis was named a member of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and
Incarceration Reform by the former New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman. He was also named a
member of the U.S. Partnership on Mobility from Poverty by the Urban Institute. In 2015, he testified before the
Task Force on 21st Century Policing created by President Barack H. Obama.

Travis has taught courses on criminal justice, public policy, history, and law at Yale College, New York University
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York Law School, George Washington University, and John Jay
College of Criminal Justice.

Under Travis's leadership, John Jay has been transformed into a senior college offering a rigorous undergraduate
liberal arts program coupled with an array of cutting-edge professional studies. Travis also led the formation of
the Justice Academy, an educational partnership involving John Jay and six CUNY community colleges. In 2012,
John Jay joined the Macaulay Honors College of CUNY.

John Jay now has the most diverse student body among CUNY's senior colleges and enrolls the largest veteran
population in CUNY, with significant student services and resources.[citation needed] Travis also partnered with
area corporations to establish the Veterans Corporate Roundtable to support career opportunities for veteran
students. Under his leadership, freshman enrollment has increased by half, full-time faculty have increased by
one-third, and external funding for faculty research has tripled. John Jay now offers 31 undergraduate majors, 13
master's degree programs, and houses two nationally recognized doctoral programs. John Jay Online was
launched in 2014, offering several master's degrees and advanced certificates online. He introduced the ACE
program to support student success, the first at a CUNY senior college. He initiated pipeline programs in
partnership with NYPD, Department of Corrections, and other public organizations.

The Pre-Law Institute (PLI) and Program for Research Initiatives in Science and Math (PRISM) were created as
part of his vision for supporting student success. Travis was instrumental in establishing nationally known
centers at John Jay, including the Prisoner Reentry Institute and the Prison to College Pipeline (P2CP), National
Network for Safe Communities,Center for Media, Crime and Justice, and more recently, the Institute for
Innovation in Prosecution and the Research Network on Misdemeanor Justice. He also brought the Center for
Policing Equity to John Jay.

John Jay's 625,000-square-foot new building was constructed and opened in 2011, more than doubling the size
of the campus. The building created a cohesive instructional environment and integrated college functions into a
unified city block, creating an academic city within a city, as a true urban campus. The building also houses a
September 11 memorial for the 67 John Jay alumni who died as a result of the attack.

The college completed its first capital campaign, which raised $50 million, in 2014, and launched its next
campaign of $75 million publicly in 2016, of which nearly $50 million has been raised so far under Travis's
leadership.

Travis announced that he would step down from his position as president in August 2017. He was appointed as
university professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and will serve as a Senior Fellow
at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He will continue to serve as co-director of the
Misdemeanor Justice Project and co-chair of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution
at John Jay College. He will also continue to work on issues of mass incarceration, prisoner reentry, crime policy
and criminal justice reforms.
 Nicholas Turner
- President and Director of the Vera Institute for Justice

Nicholas Turner joined Vera as its fifth president and director in August, 2013. Under his leadership, Vera is pursuing
core priorities of ending the misuse of jails, transforming conditions of confinement, and ensuring that justice systems
more effectively serve America's growing minority communities. To that end, Vera is working across the country to
reduce jail populations in major cities, shrink the number of people held in solitary confinement, and develop systems
to ensure that police are held accountable for building public trust. Vera is also using new tools and leveraging its
half-century of experience working on the frontlines of justice to shape public debate at a time when interest in justice
is at a new height.

Recent major initiatives include a high-level study tour of the German justice system that was covered by 60 Minutes,
a multimedia public engagement campaign exploring the legacy of the 1994 Crime Bill, and a first-of-its-kind
interactive data tool that sheds new light on the role jails play in mass incarceration.

Nick previously served at Vera from 1998 to 2007. During his first tenure, he developed ideas for demonstration
projects aimed at keeping troubled youth out of the justice system and easing reentry for adult prisoners. He also
guided the expansion of Vera’s national work, launching and directing Vera’s state sentencing and corrections
initiative, while supervising Vera’s domestic violence projects and the creation of its youth justice program. As vice
president and chief program officer, Nick was responsible for the development and launch of the Prosecution and
Racial Justice Program and the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons.

Prior to re-joining Vera, Nick was a managing director at The Rockefeller Foundation, where he was a member of the
foundation’s senior leadership team and a co-leader of its global urban efforts. He provided leadership and strategic
direction on key initiatives, including transportation policy reform in the U.S. to promote social, economic, and
environmental interests, and redevelopment in New Orleans to advance racial and socioeconomic integration.

Earlier in his legal career, Nick was an associate in the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison in New York from 1997 to 1998. He was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Jack. B. Weinstein, Senior United
States District Judge in Brooklyn from 1996 to 1997. Before attending Yale Law School, he worked with
court-involved, homeless, and troubled young people at Sasha Bruce Youthwork, a Washington, DC youth services
organization, from 1989 to 1993.
Nick is author of several op-eds, including “A Home After Prison” (the New York Times), “What We Learned
from German Prisons” (with Jeremy Travis, president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the New York
Times), “The Steep Cost of America’s High Incarceration Rate” (with Robert Rubin, co-chairman of the
Council on Foreign Relations and a former U.S. Treasury secretary, the Wall Street Journal) and “Treating
Prisoners with Dignity Can Reduce Crime” (with John Wetzel, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of
Corrections, National Journal’s The Next America). He has also published a number of articles on criminal
justice, including Politics, Public Service, and Professionalism: Conflicting Themes in the Invention and
Evaluation of Community Prosecution (with Chris Stone, 1999) and “The Cost of Avoiding Injustice by
Guideline Circumventions,” in Federal Sentencing Reporter (with the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, 1997).

In 2015, Nick joined the advisory council of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, a new, independent nonprofit
aiming to eliminate the gaps in opportunity and achievement for boys and young men of color. He currently
serves on the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform and the
Advisory Board to New York City’s Children’s Cabinet. Nick has previously served on the boards of the
National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Living Cities, Center for Working Families, and St. Christopher’s
Inc.
 Darren Walker
- President of the Ford Foundation

Darren is a nonprofit executive who serves as president of the Ford Foundation. Earlier in his career, Walker worked as a
lawyer and as an investment banker.
Walker is a fellow of the Institute for Urban Design, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a board
member of the Arcus Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Friends of the High Line, and the Foundation
for Art and Preservation in Embassies.He has been a teacher of housing, law and urban development at the New York
University School of Law and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is co-chair of the New York
Public Library Council. He is board of directors vice-chairman at the New York City Ballet. In 2018, Walker joined the
board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Walker was born in a charity hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana. Walker was raised by a single mother in Ames and later
Baytown, Texas; and was one of the country's first children to benefit from the Head Start Program. Walker said that
his background "has given me an understanding of the need for investment in human capital and the centrality of
private philanthropy making a difference in human lives."

With financial support from a Pell Grant, Walker was admitted into the University of Texas at Austin. In 1982, he
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in government and a Bachelor of Science in speech communication. In 1986, Walker
graduated from the University of Texas School of Law with a Juris Doctor.

Walker began his career in 1986 at the international law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. In 1988, he joined
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) and spent seven years in its capital markets division.
In 1995, Walker left the corporate world to spend a year volunteering at a school in Harlem. He went on to become the
chief operating officer at Abyssinian Development Corporation, a community development organization also located
in Harlem. There, he was able to draw on his private sector experience to advance revitalization in Harlem, including
the opening of a Pathmark supermarket in 1999 at 125th Street and Lexington Avenue.He also led the development of
the first public school built in New York City by a community organization.

From 2002-2010, Walker was vice president for foundation initiatives at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he oversaw
a wide range of programs in the United States and internationally. Also, at the Rockefeller Foundation, he led a
recovery program in the southern United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
He joined the Ford Foundation in 2010 as vice president for Education, Creativity and Free Expression, one of the
foundation's three major program areas.He also oversaw Ford Foundation's regional programming in four offices
based in Africa and the Middle East. Walker was involved in securing funding for the American Folk Art Museum
when the museum was experiencing financial difficulties.
He served on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's November 2013 Transition Advisory Team.
n July 2006, Walker was named the Rockefeller Foundation's vice president for United States and international
initiatives.
At Rockefeller Foundation, Walker led the foundation’s work in the United States of America and globally - in terms
of supporting innovations that built economic development, sustainability and assets of poor and disadvantaged
people; while creating long-term strategies that addressed increasing global migration, movements and urbanization.
He also oversaw the Foundation’s new strategy and vision for New York City, including directing Rockefeller
Foundation's support of the re-building of New Orleans.
Earlier, from 2002, Walker served as Rockefeller Foundation's working communities program director; where he
oversaw a grant making portfolio, in excess of USD$25 million per year, that created anti-poverty strategies focusing
on education, employment, sustainable community development, and democracy building in the United States.
Walker was named president of the Ford Foundation in June 2013. He officially stepped into the role of president in
September 2013, succeeding Luis Ubiñas.
Walker spearheaded efforts to save DIA: Detroit Institute of Arts and city workers' pensions in the Detroit
bankruptcy process. Walker stated that: it was "unprecedented and monumental for philanthropies to undertake this
kind of initiative, but if there was ever a time when philanthropy should step up, this is it."
Walker led nine foundations, many with ties to Michigan - including Community Foundation for Southeast
Michigan, William Davidson Foundation, Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, Ford Foundation,
Hudson-Webber Foundation, Kresge Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, McGregor Fund, and
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. These US foundations "have pledged to pool the $330 million, which would
essentially relieve the city-owned Detroit Institute of Arts museum of its responsibility to sell some of its collection to
help Detroit pay its $18 billion in debts. In particular, the foundation money would help reduce a portion of the
city’s obligations to retirees, whose pensions are at risk of being reduced in the bankruptcy proceedings. By some
estimates, the city’s pensions are underfunded by $3.5 billion." Walker's Ford Foundation pledged to provide
USD$125 million for the USD$330 million common fund from the nine Foundations.
In January 2014, with Alberto Ibargüen, Mariam Noland and Rip Rapson, Walker, in The Chronicle of
Philanthropy, explained their reasonable motivation for the commitment to help the people of Detroit in this tragic
period:
"Tens of thousands of Detroit’s public servants face deep cuts to their retirements and livelihoods. Shoring up the
pension funds helps these families, strengthens the local economy and relieves some of the pressure on the city’s
operating budget. Similarly, the proposal would safeguard the DIA, a treasured cultural beacon that for decades has
helped strengthen the Detroit metropolitan area, attracted residents and visitors alike, and added to Detroiters’ sense
of identity and connection to the city. Our support also aims to accomplish something even larger: helping a great
city get back on its feet quickly and on course toward a better future. This new investment, above and beyond our
existing grant making in the region, represents our desire to seize a rare opportunity and play a constructive role in the
revitalization of Detroit.
We see a one-of-a-kind chance to make an investment that is true to all of our values and our giving priorities and that
embodies the kind of flexible, creative, and transformative philanthropy we believe in. At its best, we hope our
involvement may bolster the spirit of positive engagement and creativity in Detroit, catalyzing others to invest
strategically across the region. It does not mark the start of philanthropy as a solution to public insolvency. This is a
unique, clear-eyed move to push forward positive negotiations, with our philanthropic dollars being exclusively
pegged for two roles: safeguarding the DIA and protecting pensions.
 Kenneth H. Zimmerman
- Distinguished Fellow of the Furman Center at NYU Law
School and the former Director of U.S. Programs of the
Open Society Foundations

Ken Zimmerman is a Distinguished Fellow at the NYU Furman Center. Ken’s research examines new forms of social
advocacy and policy development in the urban environment, with a special focus on evolving mechanisms for civic
engagement and innovative approaches to address growing inequality. Ken, a noted policy maker, fair housing expert,
and civil rights attorney, has devoted his career to justice and equality issues. Prior to joining the NYU Furman
Center, Kenn served as the Director of U.S. Programs for the Open Society Foundations, where he oversaw the
annual dissemination of over $100 million in grants to organizations focused on equality, fairness, and justice. Before
joining Open Society Foundations, he served as part of the Obama Administration’s presidential transition team for
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and served as senior advisor to HUD Secretary Shaun
Donovan. Previously, he was a litigation partner for the pro bono practice group at Lowenstein Sandler PC, chief
counsel to New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine, and founding Executive Director of the New Jersey Institute of
Social Justice. Early in his career, Ken served as a Senior Trial Attorney, then Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Programs, in HUD’s Office of Fair Housing. He also served as a Skadden Legal Fellow at the Legal
Aid Society of Alameda County, California, and at the Washington D.C. Legal Clinic for the Homeless. Ken
graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Yale University in 1982 and earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School,
also graduating magna cum laude, in 1988.

Mr. Zimmerman joined NJCC’s Board in 2009. He is currently a fellow at NYU's Furman Center. He previously
served as Director of US Programs at the Open Society Foundation. Prior to joining Open Society in 2012, he was
partner in the law firm of Lowenstein & Sandler, chairing the firm’s Center for the Public Interest, the firm’s pro
bono practice group. Mr. Zimmerman is a noted civil rights attorney, a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings
Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Program, and an Advisor to Harvard Law School’s Public Service Venture Fund. Prior
to joining Lowenstein & Sandler, Mr. Zimmerman served as Chief Counsel to Governor Corzine, was founding
Executive Director of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and served on the Obama Administration’s
transition team for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He previously served as a
Deputy Assistant Secretary at HUD, a Senior Trial Attorney in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division,
and has held various teaching and fellowship positions. Mr. Zimmerman also serves on the boards of La Casa de Don
Pedro, the New Jersey Charter School Association, and Volunteer Lawyers for Justice.