Welcoming Our New Board Members

The Center for Justice Innovation’s Board of Directors has gained three new members, whose wealth of personal and professional experience will enrich the Board’s efforts to ensure our work is guided by our core values of integrity, impact, equity, and collaboration.

 

Adem Bunkeddeko is the former Executive Director of Coro New York, where he led the organization’s turnaround following the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to Coro, Adem worked in a variety of managerial roles across the private, public, and social sectors. And for five years, he served on Brooklyn Community Board 8. Adem's parents are refugees who fled Uganda's turbulent civil war to seek sanctuary and opportunity in the United States; Adem is one of the first members of his family to graduate from college and earn a graduate degree. He received a B.A. from Haverford College, where he studied political science and philosophy, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

 

Mary Beth Maloney is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s New York office and a Chambers USA-ranked commercial litigator with expertise in the fields of life sciences, securities litigation, and business restructuring. Mary Beth is called upon to represent clients in commercial litigation and government investigations, multimillion-dollar licensing and contract disputes, as well as shareholder disputes. Prior to practicing law, she worked for six years in the California State Capitol after which she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alicemarie H. Stotler, then Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Mary Beth is a member of the Permanent Commission on Access to Justice, supporting equal access to New York courts. She is on the Board of Directors of the New York City Urban Debate League and is also an Advisory Board Member for Women in Funds, an organization of fund-related attorneys and compliance professionals. Mary Beth earned her J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, and earned her B.A. from Barnard College as an Erica Jong Writing Fellow.

 

Jeremy Travis is a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Justice Lab. In this role, Jeremy will work on a book with Bruce Western, the Lab’s Director, on the role of values in the future of justice reform, help launch a major research project on the impact of mass incarceration on New York City neighborhoods, and continue his involvement with the Square One Project, a multi-year initiative dedicated to “reimagining justice.” Prior to joining the Justice Lab, Jeremy served as Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures, one of the nation’s largest funders of justice reform. There he led a team advancing evidence-based reforms to strengthen police accountability, promote community safety, reduce unjust pretrial detention, advance effective prosecution and public defense policies, improve community supervision, develop models for more humane prisons, and remove barriers to reintegration for people with criminal records. While at Arnold Ventures, Jeremy collaborated with Bruce Western to launch the Square One Project. In 2023, the essays produced by the Square One Executive Session were published in a book titled Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice, co-edited by Bruce and Jeremy.

Jeremy joined Arnold Ventures after serving as President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice for 13 years. Under his leadership, John Jay became a senior liberal arts college, raised graduation rates, secured record levels of financial support for John Jay students, and became a national leader in the justice reform movement. Jeremy worked with John Jay faculty to create a suite of research centers exploring critical topics such as community safety, prisoner reentry, the changing role of prosecutors, community violence interventions, emergency preparedness, terrorism, racial reckoning, cybercrime, and criminal justice ethics. Prior to John Jay, Jeremy was a senior fellow with the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute where he launched a national research program on prisoner reentry. He served six years in the Clinton Administration as director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). During his tenure, NIJ quadrupled federal funding for criminal justice research. Jeremy’s career also includes government service as Deputy Commissioner, Legal Matters at the New York City Police Department, Special Advisor to the Mayor of New York, Chief Counsel to the House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, and law clerk for Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she sat on the Court of Appeals. Prior to law school, Jeremy worked for six years at the Vera Institute of Justice. He began his career as a Legal Services Assistant at the Legal Aid Society. Jeremy chaired the New York State Task Force on Transforming Juvenile Justice, which paved the way for the state’s historic Close to Home initiative resulting in dramatic downsizing of youth prisons. Jeremy also chaired the National Research Council’s consensus panel on mass incarceration and co-edited (with Bruce Western and Steve Redburn) the panel’s report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences. He earned his J.D. and M.P.A. from New York University and his B.A. from Yale College.

Jeremy has authored or co-edited five books and dozens of articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces. More on his publications, lectures, and media appearances can be found at his website.

 

We are proud to have these dedicated and talented leaders drawing on their insight and expertise to strengthen our mission of building safe, strong communities and a justice system that treats everyone with dignity and compassion. As our Executive Director Courtney Bryan said, “We are thrilled to welcome these three accomplished individuals to our board. Each brings a unique depth of knowledge that will help them lead the Center into an even stronger future.”

Welcome aboard, Adem, Mary Beth, and Jeremy!