Indrani Nicodemus Rivera is a dedicated criminal legal and prison reform advocate. As an event producer, she focuses on raising awareness, fundraising and building community for various criminal legal organizations. Most notably, Indrani produced events for the Innocence Project, JLUSA and the Fortune Society. She holds membership on The Remedy Project board and with Parole Preparation Project's Anti-Racist Working Group. She is an Emerson College alumni, received a Navigator Certificate in Human Services and Community Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and completed NYS Peer certification training.
Dr. Valeria Saladino is a clinical psychologist/criminologist with a PhD in Developmental Psychology and PostDoc in Clinical Psychology at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio in Italy. She is interested in addiction, sexual offending, and the use of new technologies in the field of treatment, on which she has published articles and books. She works as a professor at the University Mercatorum of Rome and a psychologist in adult Italian Correctional Facilities. She was on the founding team of The Remedy Project while a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
Jerry Boies, Esq is a highly successful trial lawyer who has represented clients in a wide range of high-profile cases across the United States. He has also served as local counsel for national law firms and Fortune 500 companies, providing strategic advice and handling complex litigation. He is a skilled trial lawyer in individual, class, and collective actions, representing both employees and employers. Additionally, he has championed civil rights cases, particularly those involving violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, advocating for equality and non-discrimination.
Jonathan Wrenn is a student member of the Board of Directors and a junior at Columbia University’s School of General Studies, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. His passion for criminal justice reform is deeply personal, rooted in his experience of being adopted after his biological parents were incarcerated due to substance use disorders. This has motivated him to advocate for systemic changes, aiming to prevent the separation of families due to incarceration.
Al Brooks (he/him) is an organizer, attorney, and co-founder/co-lead organizer of Unlock the Bar. Al pursues transformative justice with a Black Queer Feminist lens. Al is an Adjunct Professor of Law Practice at Tuskegee University. Al has worked at or interned for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Phillips Black, Inc., the Legal Defense Fund, the Bronx Defenders, the Capital Appeals Project/Promise of Justice Initiative, and the Legal Aid Society of New York. During law school, Al directed the NYU Law Prison Teaching Project. Al has also organized with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, BYP100, and the Black Freedom Project of New York. He received his J.D. at NYU School of Law in 2021, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar, and received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 2016.
Tolu Lawal (she/her) is one of two volunteer lawyers for The Remedy Project. She is a fellow at the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law and NYU Law School. Prior to joining the Center, she was a Racial Justice Legal Fellow with the New York City Commission on Human Rights, working on legislative and policy analysis, public education and community collaboration, legal research and restorative/transformative justice through a race-specific focus. While a student at NYU Law, she served as the Co-Chair of the Black Allied Law Student Association (BALSA) and one of the lead organizers of the Racism Lives Here Too campaign. She worked at the Center as an intern in 2017, as well as an intern at the ACLU Racial Justice Project in 2018, and with NYU's Juvenile Defenders Clinic from 2018 to 2019. She also engages in advocacy, supporting Black and Brown-led groups committed to charting the road to liberation for all people, particularly those who are formerly incarcerated. She currently provides legal support to the Justice Impact Alliance. She is also a co-founder and co-lead organizer of Unlock the Bar (UTB), a New York-based campaign and coalition of allied and systems-impacted law students and lawyers who are advocating for a just and equitable legal profession. She received her J.D. from New York University Law School in the Class of 2019 and received her B.A. from Duke University in 2014.
