Lenore Anderson

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. ASJ has championed more than 150 reforms to increase support for victims of violence, expand public investments into community-based safety programs, reduce incarceration, and reduce
recidivism. ASJ’s advocacy has resulted in more than $3.5 billion in new funding for prevention and safety programs, dozens of new legal protections for victims of crime, and reduced incarceration by 300,000 people. ASJ’s flagship program, Crime Survivors Speak, is the nation’s largest program for survivors of violence, providing leadership development and advocacy opportunities as well as peer-based support. Previously, Lenore has 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 Mayor’s Office for the City of Oakland; and as Director of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. In these roles, she launched and oversaw grant programs for community-based prevention and safety programs. Lenore also serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Innovations in Prosecution of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is the recipient of the Frank Carrington Crime Victim Attorney Award and the Irvine Leadership Award. 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).