Geoff Burkhart (he/him)

Geoff Burkhart (he/him)

Geoff is the Executive Director of the Texas Fair Defense Project. He previously served as Executive Director of the Texas Indigent Defense Commission. There, under his leadership, the State of Texas doubled its public defense budget and doubled the number of public...
Stephen Saloom

Stephen Saloom

Stephen Saloom is a criminal justice reform leader, whose specialty is creating advocacy networks and campaigns to support local, state, and federal policy partners nationwide. He was the founding Policy Director at the Innocence Project; co-chair of the National...
Chris Preston

Chris Preston

Known for his unwavering spirit of service, Chris Preston has provided servant leadership domestically and abroad for over a decade. As a former council member in the Greater Houston area, Chris has positively impacted government and nonprofit organizations with an...
Elsa Acala

Elsa Acala

In a three-decade career from 1989 to 2020 in the field of criminal law in the state courts of Texas, Elsa Alcala is a jack of all trades with experience as a prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, justice-reform lobbyist, trial judge, intermediate appellate justice,...
Fred T. Goldberg, Jr.

Fred T. Goldberg, Jr.

Mr. Goldberg’s government service has included service as IRS Chief Counsel (1984-1986), IRS Commissioner (1989-1991), and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy (1992). From 1992 through 2017 he was a tax partner in the Skadden, Arps Washington, DC...