Dana Greene
Associate Research Scholar and Director of Membership & Social Practice at The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School • d.greene@yale.edu
Dana Greene is a Research Scholar in Law and the Director of Membership & Social Practice at The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, where she fosters a justice-focused scholarly community, supports individual members in their work, and develops socially engaged initiatives and programming.
Dana came to the study of criminal justice by way of street activism and has over twenty-five years of research, education, organizing, and justice policy experience. Dana holds a doctorate in Criminal Justice from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
As an Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at New Mexico StateUniversity, Greene’s work encompassed a project to study and dismantle disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the New Mexico juvenile justice system, organizing environmental justice teach-ins in unincorporated townships (colonias) on the U.S.-Mexico border, photo-documenting every adult prison in the state, serving as an expert criminal justice consultant for the mayor and city council of Las Cruces, and helping establish a plant conservation programin the Penitentiary of New Mexico.