Leadership

Elizabeth Glazer, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice

Elizabeth Glazer is the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. In that role, she serves as the senior criminal justice policy advisor to the Mayor and First Deputy Mayor. Ms. Glazer oversees citywide criminal justice policy and develops and implements strategies across city agencies and partners to enhance public safety, reduce unnecessary incarceration, and increase fairness. Previously, Ms. Glazer served as the Secretary for Public Safety to NYS Governor Cuomo, where she was responsible for the oversight and management of eight state agencies, including Corrections, Parole, State Police and National Guard. Ms. Glazer has also held a variety of leadership positions at the local, state and federal levels, including the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York where she pioneered the use of the racketeering laws to address the violent gang problem. Ms. Glazer received her B.A. from Harvard University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. She clerked for then-US Circuit Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Senior Advisors

Michele Sviridoff, who has been the Deputy Criminal Justice Coordinator for Research and Planning since 2002, focuses on criminal and juvenile justice system analysis. Ms. Sviridoff came to the city from the Center for Court Innovation, where she served as Deputy Director. Before that, Ms. Sviridoff was a Senior Research Associate at the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and at the Vera Institute of Justice. Ms. Sviridoff is a graduate of Smith College and holds an M.Phil. from Yale University. Ms. Sviridoff is the author of Dispensing Justice Locally, a book about the implementation and effects of the Midtown Community Court.

Senior Staff

Alex Crohn is the General Counsel. Prior to his current position, Mr. Crohn served as Assistant Counsel to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and was an Associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. Mr. Crohn is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Columbia University.

Jean-Claude LeBec is the Chief Operating Officer. Mr. LeBec oversees budgets and expense operations, the contract unit, and citywide court capital improvement projects. Prior to joining MOCJ, Mr. LeBec worked at OMB where he was the unit head for the Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) and the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD). Before OMB, Mr. LeBec worked with Americorps and as a program officer in the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund. Mr. LeBec holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Science from The New School Milano School of Management and Urban Policy.

Marc Gonzalez Soler is the Chief of Staff. Prior to his current position, Mr. Soler was the deputy executive director for policy and strategic initiatives at the Civilian Complaint Review Board, where he worked closely with the board in conceptualizing and implementing major initiatives at the CCRB. Mr. Soler is also a senior advisor to the federal monitor of the Puerto Rico Police Department and an adjunct faculty member of both the political science and public management departments at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Mr. Soler holds a Master of Public Policy and a Ph.D. in politics from The New School University, in addition to graduate and law degrees earned in Europe.

Sarah Solon is the Chief External Strategy Officer. Prior to her current position, Ms. Solon served as Senior Communications Strategist at the American Civil Liberties Union and as Senior Program Officer at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative. Ms. Solon holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a Master of Public Administration from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Executive Staff

Eric Cumberbatch is the Program Director of anti-violence initiatives. Born and raised in New York City, Mr. Cumberbatch began his career as a teacher with the New York City Department of Education and has also held several positions at the New York City Housing Authority. Mr. Cumberbatch holds a Master’s Degree in Education from NW Missouri State University and a Bachelor of Science from Delaware State University.

Dominique Day is the Executive Director of Justice Initiatives. Ms. Day has a wide range of legal and policy expertise, including serving as a Senior Rule of Law Advisor for the U.S. State Department in Iraq and Afghanistan, where she was a subject-matter expert on rule of law and access to justice. She also has experience as a litigator in criminal defense, family defense, and complex civil cases in New York City and federally. Ms. Day received her Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies from Harvard College and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Renita Francois is the Deputy Director of the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety. Previously, Ms. Francois worked at Management Leadership for Tomorrow, a non-profit organization providing leadership development opportunities and access to top-tier companies and organizations for underrepresented minorities. She led both the program and business operations for MLT’s Career Advancement Program, whose participants held mid- to senior-level leadership positions in different organizations. Prior to MLT, Ms. Francois served as a resource coordinator at Brooklyn Family Court, where she led several initiatives in process improvement and data collection. Ms. Francois received her Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and holds an MBA from Cornell University.

Tamara Greenfield is the Program Director of Building Healthy Communities. During her eight years as Executive Director of Fourth Arts Block (FAB), Ms. Greenfield expanded membership to 28 small cultural groups on the Lower East Side, helped leverage over $25 million in capital funds, and led innovative programs focused on neighborhood sustainability and resource sharing. She also founded and co-directed Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts New York, a citywide coalition of arts and community organizations. Prior to FAB, Ms. Greenfield led Partnerships for Parks’ Catalyst Program, revitalizing 16 parks in four neighborhoods. She received her Master of Urban Planning from Hunter College and Bachelor of Arts in Art History and International Development from Washington University in St. Louis.

Diana Gutierrez is the Agency Chief Contracting Officer. Ms. Gutierrez oversees both the contract unit and the fiscal unit. Prior to joining MOCJ, she served in a compliance capacity for grants and contracts in the government and the private sector. Ms. Gutierrez graduated from St. John’s University with both a Bachelor of Science and Masters of Professional Studies in Criminal Justice. She is currently a J.D. candidate at New York Law School.

Dana Kaplan is the Executive Director of Youth and Strategic Initiatives. Previously, Ms. Kaplan was the Executive Director of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, a New Orleans based non-profit legal and advocacy organization. Ms. Kaplan has also been a Soros Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), was the State-wide Organizer for the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice, and worked for the Brooklyn-based Prison Moratorium Project. Ms. Kaplan holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s from the CUNY Graduate Center with a certificate in American Studies.

Christian J. Klossner is the Executive Director of the Office of Special Enforcement. He previously served for over five years as the deputy director of the District of Columbia’s Office of Police Complaints (OPC), where he oversaw the agency’s investigative, adjudication, mediation, outreach, and administrative activities. Prior to joining OPC, he worked as an assistant district attorney in the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor of New York City and the Office of the Bronx District Attorney. He also served as an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at his alma mater, Fordham University School of Law. Before earning his J.D. from Fordham, Mr. Klossner worked as a campaign organizer, lobbyist, and staff supervisor with the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Trish Marsik is the Executive Director for the Mayor’s Task Force on Behavioral Health and the Criminal Justice System. Prior to her current position, Ms. Marsik worked as Assistant Commissioner for Mental Health at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), where she managed the development, implementation, and oversight of contracted mental health programs as well as policy and programmatic initiatives for all New York City residents. Before joining DOHMH, Ms. Marsik directed service programs at Legal Aid and the Urban Justice Center for people in New York City who were homeless, justice involved and/or had a mental illness.

Miriam Popper is the Program Director of alternatives to detention and incarceration. Before joining MOCJ, Ms. Popper worked with the Prisoner Reentry Institute (PRI) at John Jay College, assisting with the oversight and implementation of the New York City Justice Corps, a reentry initiative aimed at reducing poverty and recidivism among young men and women ages 18-24. Ms. Popper graduated from Skidmore College with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Law and Society, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Science in Criminology.

Amy Sananman is the Executive Director of the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety. Prior to joining MOCJ, Ms. Sananman served for nearly 20 years as the founding Executive Director of Groundswell, NYC’s leading nonprofit for using public art as a tool for social change. During her tenure, Groundswell engaged tens of thousands of teens and hundreds of community groups to transform physical spaces across the five boroughs. Prior to Groundswell, Ms. Sananman's experience includes tenant organizing and affordable housing development. Ms. Sananman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jennifer Scaife is the Executive Director of Prevention, Diversion, and Reintegration. Ms. Scaife joins MOCJ after ten years of working in the criminal justice field in California. Most recently, she had worked for the City and County of San Francisco on reentry policy and programs, as staff to the Reentry Council of San Francisco and as Director of the Reentry Division at the Adult Probation Department. Prior to this, she was Program Director for the Prison University Project, which operates an Associate of Arts degree-granting program at San Quentin State Prison. She was also writer-in-residence at a juvenile detention center in Martinez, California. Ms. Scaife holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Indiana University-Bloomington, and a Bachelor of Arts from The College of William and Mary.

Ashley Smith is the Budget Director. Prior to joining MOCJ, Ms. Smith was a Senior Budget Analyst at the NYC Office of Management and Budget in the Revenue Accountability Unit within the Social Services Task Force. Before joining OMB, she worked at the Albany County Department of Management and Budget where she oversaw the Health & Human Services and Administrative Agency budgets for the county. Ms. Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts from Iona College and a Master of Public Administration from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University of Albany.

Reagan Stevens is the Deputy Director of the Behavioral Health Task Force. Before joining MOCJ, Ms. Stevens worked for Up2Us Sports as the Assistant Director of their flagship program, Coach Across America, which trains coach-mentors in trauma-sensitive methods. Prior to that, Ms. Stevens spent 15 years in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. There, she managed programs that addressed the precursors to crime, such as truancy, and coordinated a post-arrest diversion program that provided services to offenders when mental health treatment and rehabilitation were appropriate. Ms. Stevens is a New York City native, and an alumna of Binghamton University.

Jordan Stockdale is the Program Director of school climate initiatives. A former educator who has worked with at-risk youth and students with special needs for many years, Mr. Stockdale researched the effects of education budget cuts on the quality and prevalence of alternative education programming in Madrid’s Public Schools as a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to that, Mr. Stockdale taught special education in East Harlem, New York. Mr. Stockdale has a Master’s of Education and is currently on leave from earning his second Master’s from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Emily Turner is the Deputy Chief for Research and Data Strategies. Prior to joining MOCJ, Ms. Turner led numerous data-driven technical assistance projects at the Council of State Governments Justice Center, working with counties around the country seeking to improve outcomes for people with mental health needs involved in the criminal justice system. Before her tenure at the Justice Center, Ms. Turner worked as a research associate in the Prosecution and Racial Justice Program at the Vera Institute of Justice and served as a law clerk in the Homicide Division of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, PA. Ms. Turner received her B.A. in sociology, M.A. in criminology, and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.