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Washington, Dc, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Provide consulting services in governmental affairs, AI, workforce and justice issues, and healthcare/ social determinants of health (SDoH).Work with large health insurance plans, credit reporting agencies, and other large corporations to drive value through strategic partnerships and programs. Assist companies in creating GTM strategies, corporate social responsibility integrations, and related initiatives.Created second chance hiring documentary and training for private companies (Retaining Talent); regularly counsel and train second chance employers. Secured funding for a hospital system to build telehealth and IT infrastructure systems.Designed SDoH management strategy and criminal justice service framework for large health insurance company.Built coalitions and partnerships to optimize healthcare for vulnerable populations, including those with criminal justice involvement. Assist state departments of correction in correctional healthcare optimization and continuum of care issues in both Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states. Work with the current and two previous White House Administrations on a variety of criminal justice and social service issues.

Austin, Tx, Us

Executive Director of Safe Streets & Second Chances, a national criminal justice project operating in 7 states, translating real time social science research into policy and developing and driving policy changes in social safety net and criminal justice issues. Subject matter expert and national speaker on Fair Chance and Second Chance Hiring initiatives; advised senior leadership teams at large and mid-size corporations. Advised dozens of Governors on statewide implementation of criminal justice, workforce development, specialty court policies, technology legislation (related to fines and fees and REAL ID compliance).Contributed to the passage of the Federal First Step Act, leveraging bipartisan relationships and providing subject matter expertise on issues of good time credit, immigration consequences, and supervised release.Worked with multiple White House Administrations on criminal justice, healthcare, workforce and social service issues.

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Provided executive leadership for a statewide nonprofit corporation and affiliates with centers throughout New Jersey, specializing in workforce development through connections to legal, healthcare, health insurance (Medicaid), housing and social services for court-involved/reentry populations. Managed over 60 employees in nine locations, and served a Board of Directors which included five former New Jersey Governors and a former Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.Built the largest pro bono legal program for Driver’s License restoration in the country and expanded a statewide reentry program to nine locations in under three years (first five sites built simultaneously in 8 months).Oversaw $10M in grant funding; Managed multiple grant streams and developed innovative programs that addressed nontraditional work barriers for formerly incarcerated individuals navigating intersecting social systems such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), housing, and urban farming to address food insecurity solutions.Optimized cloud-based data systems to track outcomes and manage social determinants of health. Designed and implemented seamless connections to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) by removing barriers to care and optimizing community outreach at systemic catch-points, such as welfare, health and human services, mental health providers, corrections/probation/parole, and homeless shelters.

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Oversaw the reentry programming for an American Job Center, implementing the requirements of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Managed multiple grant streams and developed innovative programs that addressed nontraditional work barriers.

Trenton, New Jersey, Us

Managed client development staff, prepared corporate budgets for the CEO. Oversaw governmental and public/external affairs. Drafted public and private sales proposals, spreadsheets, RFP/RFQ and interacted with sales leads and clients. Developed and implemented a data/analytics based system to maximize public and private bidding and to measure RFP/RFQ success.

Represented clients in high-profile criminal trials, earning the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Certification as a Criminal Trial Attorney. Successfully litigated and argued matters before the New Jersey Supreme Court and Superior Courts (Law and Appellate Divisions). Represented indigent defendants, parents of neurodiverse children, Head of NAACP Legal Redress Committee.

Teaneck, Nj, Us

Adjunct Professor of Criminal Law, and Legal Writing and Research.

Lakewood, New Jersey, Us

Handled civil and commercial litigation matters.

Trenton, Nj, Us

Judicial Law Clerk in the civil division of the Superior Court of New Jersey for the Honorable Edward M. Oles, J.S.C., who handled a general civil docket, in additional to specialty calendars of medical malpractice and environmental law cases.

J.D., Law

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Health/Health Care Administration/Management

M.A., Criminal Justice (Criminal Law & Procedure)

B.A., Criminal Justice