Skip to content

Juliene James

Vice President of Criminal Justice (she/her)

Headshot of Juliene James

Julie leads Arnold Ventures' corrections team, overseeing over $90 million invested in four strategic areas: community supervision, prisons, reintegration, and fees and fines. The team develops strategy and investments to shift probation and parole supervision from catching failure to promoting success, end mass incarceration while improving conditions for those who remain incarcerated, reduce barriers to successful reintegration, and eliminate fees and ensure fines are fair

She joined Arnold Ventures after serving as senior policy adviser for the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, where she oversaw state and local efforts to reduce solitary confinement and reform sentencing, corrections, community supervision, fines and fees, and pretrial policies and practices, among other projects.

Previously, Julie worked as a senior policy associate for the Vera Institute of Justice, providing assistance to state and local policymakers on criminal justice policy and implementation. Julie also practiced law at Wiggins, Childs, Pantazis, Fisher & Goldfarb, representing clients who experienced discrimination in employment and housing based on race, sex, and disability. In addition, she served as a judicial clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Julie earned a B.A. from Harvard College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she served as editor-in-chief of the NYU Law Review.

Headshot of Juliene James
Meet the Team

Criminal Justice

Headshot of Stephanie Akhter
Headshot of Kristin Bechtel
Headshot of Virginia Bersch
Headshot of Destiny Carter
Headshot of Alyson Clements
Headshot of Julia Durnan
Headshot of Ezekiel Edwards
Headshot of Jocelyn Fontaine
Headshot of Dina Grove
Headshot of Thomas Hanna
Headshot of Lauren Hardy
Headshot of Dylan Hayre
Headshot of Alexa Herzog
Headshot of Rasulan Inayat-Khan
Headshot of Joshua Jackson
Headshot of Nadege Joseph
Headshot of Walter Katz
Headshot of Cybele Kotonias
Headshot of Marc Krupanski
Headshot of Lindsey Lovel
Headshot of Alexius Marcano
Headshot of Randall McNeil
Headshot of Carlton Miller
Headshot of Matthew Mizel
Headshot of Linda Phiri
Headshot of Anita Ravishankar
Headshot of Rebecca Silber
Headshot of Jordan Simpson
Headshot of Golnar Teimouri
Headshot of Jasmine Tran
Headshot of Jeremy Travis
Headshot of Asheley Van Ness
Headshot of Carson Whitelemons
Headshot of James Williams
Headshot of Dina Xie

Grants

Arnold Ventures funds projects to understand problems and identify policy solutions.