Dana Greene is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Associate Research Scholar in Law, and Membership Director at the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. A scholar who specializes in restorative and community justice, penal history, and social change movements, Greene first joined The Justice Collaboratory as a Research Consultant in 2021. She is responsible for fostering a justice-minded scholarly community and developing new initiatives and programs in support of the Collaboratory’s members. Greene has more than two decades of research, education, organizing, and justice policy experience. She has taught in a wide range of educational settings, which include Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Rikers Island. Greene was previously an Associate Professor at New Mexico State University’s Department of Criminal Justice where her work included technical assistance aimed at dismantling disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the state’s juvenile justice system, organizing environmental justice teach-ins in unincorporated townships (colonias) on the U.S.-Mexico border, and photo-documenting every adult prison in the state. She has also served as a Facilitator at the Simon Wiesenthal Center and a Fellow at Bronx Community College. Greene received a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
