Our Founder
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Founder & CEO
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, lawyer, and the Founder & CEO of Freedom Reads, an initiative to radically transform access to literature in prisons.
The author of a memoir and three …
Staff
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Kevin Baker
Manufacturing Shop Manager
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Michael Byrd
Shop Hand
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Gabby Colangelo
Program Coordinator
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Dempsey
Resident Creative Writer
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Ivan J. Dominguez
Chief Communications Officer & Director of Development
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James Flynn
Assistant Shop Hand
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Allie Salazar Gonzalez
Assistant Development Manager
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Teryn Jasmin
Accounting Associate
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David Perez Jr
Program Coordinator
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Mobolaji Otuyelu
Executive Assistant
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Christine Pane
Controller
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Steven Parkhurst
Program Coordinator
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Madeline Sklar
Communications Manager
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Tyler Sperrazza
Chief Production Officer
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Terri Steingrebe
Chief Financial Officer
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James Washington
Library Fabrication Supervisor
Board of Directors
Advisory Board
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Leann Bertsch
Senior Vice President, Management & Training Corp -
Susan Burton
Founder, A New Way of Life -
Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and American Studies. The Graduate Center, City University of New York -
Dr. Lori Gruen
Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University -
Tracie D. Hall
Executive Director, American Library Association -
Kiese Laymon
Author & Professor of English & Creative Writing, The University of Mississippi -
Doug Liman
Director & Producer -
James McBride
Author & National Book Award Winner -
Debbie Mukamal
Executive Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Stanford University -
Dan Pacholke
Co-Director, Segregation Solutions, VERA -
Romarilyn Ralston
Program Director, Project Rebound -
Judith Resnick
Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School -
Scott Semple
Former Connecticut DOC Commissioner -
Daveen Trentman
Founding Partner, The Soze Agency -
Dr. Mary Helen Washington
Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland