Lenore Anderson is the co-founder and President of Alliance for Safety and Justice (ASJ), one of the largest justice and public safety reform advocacy organizations in the country, and founder of Californians for Safety and Justice, the nation’s largest state-based advocacy organization. ASJ’s flagship program, Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, is the nation’s largest network of crime survivors advocating for new public safety policies and expanded support for victims. Lenore also served as campaign chair of California’s Proposition 47, a 2014 ballot initiative to reduce incarceration and reallocate prison spending to mental health and victim services. She also served on the executive committee for California’s Proposition 57 ballot initiative in 2016 to expand earned rehabilitation credits to people in prison, as well as Florida’s Amendment 4 ballot initiative to restore voting eligibility to people with prior convictions. Previously, Lenore served in various local government leadership capacities including as Chief of Policy and Chief of the Alternative Programs Division at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office; Director of Public Safety for the Oakland Mayor; and, as Director of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. Lenore also serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Innovations in Prosecution of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law and a B.A. from UC Berkeley. She is the author of In Their Names: Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration and the Future of Public Safety (The New Press, 2022).