Advisory Board Members

Co-Chair

Paul Butler

Associate Dean for Faculty Development,

Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law,

George Washington University Law School

Co-Chair

Dr. Beth Richie

Head, African American Studies Department,

University of Illinois at Chicago

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Dr. C. Jama Adams

Chairperson of African American Studies Department,

Associate Professor,

John Jay College

Dr. Luis Barrios

Chair and Professor,

Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies,

John Jay College

Dr. David Brotherton

Chairperson, Department of Sociology,

John Jay College

Dr. Rodney Brunson

Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections,

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Dr. Todd R. Clear

Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Program of Doctoral Studies in the Graduate Center of CUNY

Eddie Ellis

Co-founder, President of Community Justice Center;

National Chairman of the NuLeadership Policy Group,

Medgar Evers College, City University of New York

Prof. Carrie Garrow

Executive Director, Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship,

Syracuse University School of Law

Dr. Philip Goff

Assistant Professor of Psychology,

University of California, Los Angeles;

Russell Sage Foundation

Prof. Tami Gold

Filmmaker and Professor of Film and Video,

Hunter College

www.andersongoldfilms.com

Prof. Diana Gordon

Senior Research Scholar and Professor Emerita (political science),

Ph. D. Program in Criminal Justice,

John Jay College of Criminal Justice;

former president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency

Dr. Helen Taylor Greene

Professor of Public Affairs,

Texas Southern University

Stephen Handelman

Director, Center on Media, Crime and Justice,

John Jay College

Prof. David A. Harris

Professor of Law,

University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Dr. Tracie Keesee

Chief of Research,

Denver Police Department

Prof. Andrew Leong,  J.D.

Associate Professor of Law,

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Dr. Ma’at Erica Lewis

Director, Counseling Department,

John Jay College

Marc Mauer

Executive Director,

The Sentencing Project, Washington, DC

Dr. Suzanne Oboler

Latin America and Latina/o Studies Department,

John Jay College

Dr. Wilson Palacios

Associate Professor,

University of South Florida

Dr. Ruth Peterson

Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences,

Professor of Sociology,

Director of the Criminal Justice Research Center,

Ohio State University

Dr. Divine Pryor

Deputy Executive Director,

Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions,

Medgar Evers College

Dr. Katheryn Russell-Brown

Professor of Law;

Director, Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations

Levin Law School at University of Florida

Dr. Natalie Sokoloff

Professor, Department of Sociology,

John Jay College

Dr. Douglas Thompkins

Department of Sociology,

John Jay College;

CUNY Black Male Initiative

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Dr. Vernetta Young

Associate Professor of Sociology & Anthropology,

Howard University