Danielle Sered is the co-founder and director of Common Justice, where she leads the project’s efforts to develop and advance practical and groundbreaking solutions to violence that advance racial equity, meet the needs of those harmed and do not rely on incarceration. Before planning the launch of Common Justice, Danielle served as the Deputy Director of Vera’s Adolescent Reentry Initiative, a program for young men returning from incarceration on Rikers Island.

She is the author of The Other Side of Harm: Addressing Disparities in our Responses to Violence, and teaches about restorative justice at the CUNY Silberman School of Social Work. A Stoneleigh fellow, Sered received her BA from Emory University and her masters degrees from New York University and Oxford University (UK), where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Danielle Sered is founder and director of Common Justice, a demonstration project of the Vera Institute of Justice that offers an alternative to incarceration and a victim-service program for serious and violent felonies. She previously served as deputy director of Vera’s Adolescent Reentry Initiative and led youth programs at the Harlem Community Justice Center. Sered sits on the advisory council of the New York State Office of Victims Services, Diversity Advisory Committee to the federal Office for Victims of Crime, New York State Governor’s Council on Reentry and Community Reintegration, and advisory board to the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. She was a Rhodes scholar.