J. Soffiyah Elijah, deputy director for the past eight years of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, has been named executive director of the Correctional Association of New York. Ms. Elijah will be the first black executive director in the organization’s 167-year history. When she takes office on March 14, she will succeed Robert Gangi, who is retiring after 29 years at the helm of the Manhattan-based group (NYLJ, Nov. 23, 2009). The association, whose board agreed to Ms. Elijah’s appointment last week, extended its search after finding no suitable candidates in a job search last year, according to Mr. Gangi.
The group tracks conditions for prisoners in state prisons and local jails and advocates for changes that would benefit inmates. Ms. Elijah said she wants to find staffers to become a “new generation of advocates and supporters in the national and local conversations about the impact of prisons and incarceration on our society.”
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