Jeff Robinson wants you to be uncomfortable with mass incarceration in the U.S.
His passion for criminal defense ignited after he attended, at age 11, a march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—just a week before his assassination—in Robinson’s hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. Now, as the newly appointed director of the ACLU’s Center for Justice—a job previously held by Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department’s top civil rights lawyer—Jeff Robinson ’81 will be tackling mass incarceration head-on.