Lauren-Brooke (L.B.) Eisen JD

Senior Director, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, USA

Lauren-Brooke Eisen is the senior director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, where she leads the organization’s work to ensure a more fair, humane, and effective justice system. Eisen has authored dozens of nationally recognized reports and articles on the criminal justice system. Her work has been featured in media outlets including the New York Times, and she has appeared on CBS News, Fox News, National Public Radio, as well as many other television and radio news programs. Eisen is the editor of Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2024) and author of Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2017). Before joining the Brennan Center, Eisen was at the Vera Institute of Justice, where she worked on the sentencing and corrections team to implement policies in multiple states to improve public safety while reducing prison populations. She also previously served as an assistant district attorney in New York City, in the appeals bureau, the criminal court bureau, and the sex crimes special victim’s bureau. Before entering law school, Eisen worked as a beat reporter for a daily newspaper in Laredo, Texas, covering criminal justice and immigration. She holds a BA from Princeton University and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Josephine Hahn ScD

Senior Research Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, USA

Dr. Josy Hahn is a senior research fellow and manager and social epidemiologist in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, where she works to implement rigorous research and racial equity approaches to examine solutions in the criminal justice and overlapping systems. Previously, Hahn was a research director of racial equity and fairness at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, examining racial disparities in neighborhood health and the criminal justice system, and overseeing research and data for citywide alternatives to incarceration programs, as well as community initiatives, the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety and the Office to Prevent Gun Violence. Prior to that, Hahn led numerous mixed-methods studies and reports at the Center for Court Innovation and the Vera Institute of Justice, examining system and community alternatives to jails and prisons, including restorative justice, gender-based violence, and gun violence interventions. Earlier in her career, she was a middle school history teacher at the Horace Mann School and worked with youth and families involved in the criminal legal system. Hahn holds a BA from Princeton University, an MPH from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, and a doctorate from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Randall Liberty

Commissioner, Maine Department of Corrections, USA

Commissioner Randall Liberty was hired by the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office in 1989 as a Deputy Sheriff. Over twenty-six years, he served as a Sergeant, Staff Sergeant, Major, Chief Deputy, and as the elected Sheriff for nine years. During his tenure as Sheriff, his efforts focused on justice-involved military veterans, drug enforcement, and addiction treatment. He served as the President of the Maine Sheriffs Association, as the Chairman of the Maine Drug Enforcement Advisory Board and as Chairman of the Board of Visitors at the University of Maine (Augusta).

Commissioner Liberty served in the Army in multiple capacities, including as a Military Policeman in Korea, in the Army National Guard and Army Reserves, and as a Command Sergeant Major in the City of Fallujah, under the tactical command of the 1st Marine Division. 

Liberty is a three-time State of Maine Law Enforcement Officer of the year. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, the National Sheriffs Leadership Institute and the New England Chiefs of Police Command Course. He earned a master’s in management and leadership from Liberty University and a B.S. in Public Administration from the University of Maine (Augusta).

Liberty served as the Warden of the Maine State Prison. He currently serves as the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Corrections and is the author of the recent best-seller “Liberty’s Prison”. During his tenure as Commissioner, Liberty implemented the Maine Model of Corrections, where dignity, respect and a non-adversarial approach are at the foundation of success.