Lucretia Murphy is vice president of the Center for Justice & Economic Advancement at JFF. She develops integrated strategies that increase economic opportunity for individuals and economic prosperity for communities, with an emphasis on economic advancement for young people and adults who have criminal records.

Her skills and areas of expertise include:

• Postsecondary education and workforce development
• Public policy and systems change
• Place-based change strategies
• Strategic planning
• Structural racism and other forms of systemic and institutional bias

Before joining JFF, Murphy was executive director of the See Forever Foundation, which operates the Maya Angelou Public Charter Schools in Washington, DC.

Educational background:

• Bachelor’s degree in international politics, law, and organization, Georgetown University
• Law degree, University of Texas at Austin
• PhD in higher education policy, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Contributions

• Ready for Pell
• Postsecondary Education in Prison CTE Accelerator Network
• Moving Beyond the Box: When Fair Chance Hiring Means Advancement Not Just Employment
• Identifying the ‘Fruit and Root’ of Systemic Racial Inequity
• Freedom to Achieve: Pathways and Practices for Economic Advancement After Incarceration
• When Practice Isn’t Enough: Why Fair Chance Hiring Requires Policy Change
• Fair Chance Hiring Even Better With Fair Chance Training
• Slack’s Fair Chance Hiring Journey: How Starting Small Can Make a Big Impact
• A Successful Post-Prison Reentry, With Support at Every Step
• The Technology We Need to Respond to the Inequitable Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color
• How Intermediaries Can Help Black and Latinx Youth Develop a Strong Occupational Identity: Four Principles of Practice
• How to Move People From Incarceration to Careers
• Technical Assistance Matters: The Impact of TA in Supporting Communities Engaged in Cross-Sector, Place-Based Work
• A First Step in a Long Journey to Criminal Justice Reform
• A Message to Community Colleges: You Are the Launchpad for Equity
• National Reentry Week: The Voices of Reentry