For seven years, he worked to build California’s first statewide network for families of incarcerated youth. The campaign contributed to efforts to close five youth prisons in the state, passed legislation to enable families to stay in contact with their loved ones and defeated Prop 6 — one of the state’s most destructive and ineffective ballot measures. He attended the Labor Community Strategy Center’s National School for Strategic Organizing in Los Angeles, California, is a former board member at Witness for Peace as well as Just Cause Oakland, and is a graduate of Harvard University and New York University School of Law.