Jeremy Travis is a Senior Fellow at CUNY ISLG. He focuses on developing work rethinking prison and jail systems, as well provides strategic guidance on several of ISLG’s core projects, including the transformation of data collected through the Safety and Justice Challenge and the expansion of our government fellowship programs.

Travis has held a series of influential roles throughout his career. He was the Founding Director of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, and has served as the Deputy Commissioner for Legal Matters at the NYPD and as a Special Advisor to the Mayor of New York City. At the federal level, he served as the Chief Counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, the Chair of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council, and was appointed Director of the National Institute of Justice under President Bill Clinton. He also served as a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, the President of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), and Executive Vice President for Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures. Most recently, he was a Senior Fellow at the Columbia University Justice Lab.