Our Founder
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Founder & CEO
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, a lawyer, and the founder and CEO of Freedom Reads.
At sixteen, he confessed to an armed carjacking and was sentenced to nine years in adult prison. He …
Staff
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Ben Bruce
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
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Michael Byrd
Library Production Associate
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Krystal Campochiaro
Staff Accountant
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James Davis III
Communications Associate
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Dempsey
Resident Creative Writer
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James Flynn
Library Production Associate
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Ben French
Library Logistics Associate
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LeRoy General, Jr.
Chief Development Officer
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Kyle Gonzalez
Library Production Assistant
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Autumn Gordon-Chow
Senior Communications Associate
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Craig L. Gore
Communications Associate
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Teryn Jasmin
Assistant Controller
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Nicola Myers
Administrative Assistant
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Darlene Neals
Executive Assistant
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David Perez DeHoyos
Library Coordination Manager
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Jonathan Peterson
Visual Systems and Production Associate
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Allie Salazar Gonzalez
Development Manager
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Tyler Sperrazza
Chief Production Officer
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Roversy Ventura
HR Generalist & Executive Assistant
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James Washington
Library Fabrication Supervisor
Board of Directors
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Tracey Meares
Board Chair
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Gara LaMarche
Board Vice Chair
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Alex Duran
Board Member
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Alva Greenberg
Board Member
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Dr. Carla Hayden
Board Member
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Deborah Leff
Board Member
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Steve Levitt
Board Member
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Anthony W. Marx
Board Member
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Robert Raben
Board Member
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Scott Semple
Board Member
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Bryan Stevenson
Board Member
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Robert I. Usdan
Board Member
Advisory Board
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Leann Bertsch
Senior Vice President, Management & Training Corp -
Susan Burton
Founder, A New Way of Life -
Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and American Studies. The Graduate Center, City University of New York -
Dr. Lori Gruen
Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University -
Tracie D. Hall
Executive Director, American Library Association -
Kiese Laymon
Author & Professor of English & Creative Writing, The University of Mississippi -
Doug Liman
Director & Producer -
James McBride
Author & National Book Award Winner -
Debbie Mukamal
Executive Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Stanford University -
Dan Pacholke
Co-Director, Segregation Solutions, VERA -
Romarilyn Ralston
Program Director, Project Rebound -
Judith Resnick
Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School -
Daveen Trentman
Founding Partner, The Soze Agency -
Dr. Mary Helen Washington
Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland