Debbie Mukamal is the executive director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center at Stanford Law School. Her portfolio of work includes directing Corrections to College, a statewide initiative to expand college opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students in California. From 2005 to 2010, she served as the founding director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 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, Mukamal 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. Mukamal holds a law degree from New York University School of Law and received her bachelor’s from the University of California, Berkeley.