This workshop will address the role that community stakeholders can play in advancing probation and parole reform. Panelists will share examples of community/system partnerships that have been mutually beneficial, as well as ways that agencies can start or expand their engagement with advocates, survivors, currently/formerly supervised people, families, other community members, and non-CJ agencies.
Rubén Austria is the founding Executive Director of Community Connections for Youth and a former Soros Justice Fellow. In 2009, he incorporated Community Connections for Youth (CCFY) as a vehicle to pursue the vision of eliminating youth prisons...
Michael Mendoza was sentenced to adult prison at age 15, where he served 17 years before being paroled in 2014. He immediately began working on criminal justice reform, advocating for changes to the law and working as a case manager at the Center...
Wendy Still is an expert corrections and conditions of detention, community corrections and re-entry consultant with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master’s Degree in Criminology,...
Kendra Bradner is Director of the Probation and Parole Reform Project at the Columbia Justice Lab, and convener of EXiT: Executives Transforming Probation and Parole.
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