Dee Mandiyan - Center for Justice Innovation

Dee Mandiyan (they/them) has been the Senior Program Manager of the Youth Justice Board since 2018. They oversee curriculum development and implementation, partnership building, communications, and Board-led research. At the Center for Court Innovation, Dee is currently a chair of the LGBTQ Working Group, which seeks to improve the Center’s practices and relationships with LGBTQ-identifying clients and employees.

Dee earned their BA in Psychology and English from Amherst College in 2010 and their MA in Human Development and Social Intervention from New York University in 2016. Before joining the Center for Court Innovation, Dee researched the impacts of gender-specific interventions in the juvenile justice system. They also have experience running an LGBTQ student center within the CUNY system, teaching SAT/PSAT prep, and planning events for non-profits.

Dee's Updates

New Website for Disconnected Youth

The Center for Court Innovation’s Youth Justice Board is pleased to announce the launch of NextMoveNYC.org, a mobile website designed to help disconnected young people achieve their goals.

I Got Arrested—Now What?

At the Center for Court Innovation, we have an abiding interest in helping the justice system improve the ways that it reaches out to, and speaks with, the public

Rethinking the Response to Human Trafficking

Many justice reformers have come to recognize that prostitution is often a form of human trafficking and that the standard response to these cases—fines and jail time—requires significant rethinking.

Summer 2014 Update

Here is some recent news from the Center for Court Innovation.