Debbie Mukamal
- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- Lecturer in Law
- Room 383, Crown Quadrangle
Expertise
- Criminology/Criminal Law Policymaking
- Sentencing & Corrections
Biography
Debbie Mukamal is the Executive Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center at Stanford Law School. Her portfolio of work includes overseeing Project ReMADE, an entrepreneurship boot camp for formerly incarcerated people, and Renewing Communities, a statewide initiative to expand college opportunities for currently and formerly incarcerated students in California (in partnership with Rebecca Silbert at the Warren Institute at Berkeley Law). Along with Stanford Law School Professor David Sklansky, she is conducting research on the demographics of prosecutors’ offices. From 2005 to 2010, she served as the founding Director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Ms. Mukamal oversaw all of the Institute’s projects, including the design and implementation of the NYC Justice Corps, an innovative neighborhood-based reentry service initiative, and the development of research in the areas of entrepreneurship, correctional education, long-term incarceration, and reentry from local jails. Before joining John Jay College, she served as the founding director of the National H.I.R.E. Network and a staff attorney at the Legal Action Center, where her work focused on the collateral consequences of criminal records. Ms. Mukamal holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.