KATIE SCHAFFER
ORGANIZATIONs
Center for Community Alternatives
YEAR
2021
LOCATION
Brooklyn, New York
Katie Schaffer is the director of organizing and advocacy at Center for Community Alternatives, which focuses on community-based alternatives to incarceration and policy advocacy to reduce reliance on incarceration. Before that, she was the New York State Organizer for JLUSA and coordinated the statewide #FREEnewyork campaign for bail reform and pretrial justice, which won a historic victory in April 2019.
