Glenn E. Martin is a national leader and criminal justice reform advocate who who spent six years in New York State prisons.
Prior to founding JustLeadershipUSA, Mr. Martin served for several years as Vice President of The Fortune Society and Co-Director of the National HIRE Network at the Legal Action Center. He is Co-Founder of the Education from the Inside Out Coalition, an America’s Leaders of Change National Urban Fellow, and a member of the governing boards of the College and Community Fellowship, Prisoners’ Legal Services, New York Foundation, California Partnership for Safe Communities and the Reset Foundation. He also serves on the advisory board of the National Network for Safe Communities.
Mr. Martin regularly contributes his expertise to national news outlets such as MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, Al Jazeera and CSPAN on topics such as policing, decarceration, alternatives to incarceration, and reentry issues.
Recent media includes:
• MSNBC: Changing the course on drug sentencing
• Wall Street Journal: Gov. Cuomo’s initiative to fund college courses in prison • New York Times: How the prison video industry will affect families
• MSNBC: The realities of solitary confinement in the US
• New York Times: Federal drug policy
• MSNBC: Rethinking discipline in the classroom
• CNN: Recent changes to NYPD stop and frisk policy
• El Diario: Statewide registration of firearms offenders
• MSNBC: Unusual political allies in drug sentencing reform
• New York Times: Strategies to reduce crime
• MSNBC: Voter disenfranchisement
• NY1: Stop and frisk
• Truth Out: “Risk Assessment” cannot solve systemic injustice of prisons
• MSNBC: Why sentencing reform is just the beginning Follow on Twitter @glennEmartin
Prior to founding JustLeadershipUSA, Mr. Martin served for several years as Vice President of The Fortune Society and Co-Director of the National HIRE Network at the Legal Action Center. He is Co-Founder of the Education from the Inside Out Coalition, an America’s Leaders of Change National Urban Fellow, and a member of the governing boards of the College and Community Fellowship, Prisoners’ Legal Services, New York Foundation, California Partnership for Safe Communities and the Reset Foundation. He also serves on the advisory board of the National Network for Safe Communities.
Mr. Martin regularly contributes his expertise to national news outlets such as MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, Al Jazeera and CSPAN on topics such as policing, decarceration, alternatives to incarceration, and reentry issues.
Recent media includes:
• MSNBC: Changing the course on drug sentencing
• Wall Street Journal: Gov. Cuomo’s initiative to fund college courses in prison • New York Times: How the prison video industry will affect families
• MSNBC: The realities of solitary confinement in the US
• New York Times: Federal drug policy
• MSNBC: Rethinking discipline in the classroom
• CNN: Recent changes to NYPD stop and frisk policy
• El Diario: Statewide registration of firearms offenders
• MSNBC: Unusual political allies in drug sentencing reform
• New York Times: Strategies to reduce crime
• MSNBC: Voter disenfranchisement
• NY1: Stop and frisk
• Truth Out: “Risk Assessment” cannot solve systemic injustice of prisons
• MSNBC: Why sentencing reform is just the beginning Follow on Twitter @glennEmartin
