Olivia Dana is Managing Director of Enterprise Strategy and People at the Center for Justice Innovation and a member of the Executive Team. She works across the organization to shape and advance organizational priorities, strengthen alignment across the Center’s diverse programs and functions, and ensure that strategy translates into coordinated action. She also oversees the Center’s people function, including human resources, employee relations, and people experience and development, with a focus on building systems, practices, and organizational culture needed to support staff and advance the Center’s mission.
With more than a decade of experience in criminal legal system reform, Olivia has held a range of leadership roles at the Center spanning program operations, strategy, research, and organizational management. Prior to moving into enterprise leadership, she oversaw the Center’s Supervised Release program, a supportive pretrial services programs serving more than 8,000 participants annually across Brooklyn and Staten Island. Her work focused on building an innovative pretrial model grounded in supportive services and community engagement.
She also served as Deputy Director of Research-Practice Strategies, where she conducted original research and provided technical assistance to jurisdictions around the country seeking to build more effective and fair local criminal justice systems. As Project Director at the Staten Island Justice Center, she developed alternative-to-incarceration programs and spearheaded community-based initiatives.
Olivia began her career as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn’s Kings County District Attorney’s Office, where she managed all stages of criminal prosecution and advanced restorative and community-focused approaches to justice.
Her work has been recognized through publications and speaking engagements on pretrial reform, restorative prosecution, and broader criminal justice reform efforts.
Olivia holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. in English from Fordham University. She is a licensed attorney in New York State.