INN’s real team are the 34 members of Global Freedom Consulting Agency, formerly incarcerated leaders in 19 countries around the world. We work with them on multiple projects in their home countries and transnationally. See their profiles here.
INN Founder and Executive Director is Dr. Baz Dreisinger, Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York; author of the critically acclaimed book Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World; founder of John Jay’s groundbreaking Prison-to-College Pipeline program; 2018 Global Fulbright Scholar and current Fulbright Scholar Specialist. Dr. Baz speaks regularly about justice issues on international media and in myriad settings around the world. Incarceration Nations has been published in translation in China, Japan, Taiwan, Italy and in Spanish and Portuguese.
Helene comes to INN with a host of experience in the nonprofit and education sectors as well as in the business of media, having worked at major radio stations in New York City, Philadelphia and Hartford, CT. She is a graduate of City College of New York and The Connecticut School of Broadcasting, and also a loving mother to Reymo.
João is a Brazilian human rights activist working at the intersection of criminal justice and drug policy.
As INN Global Coordinator, João manages global partnerships and supports INN’s Education Not Incarceration initiative and the Global Freedom Consulting Agency, among other INN projects.
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