ABOUT THE GUESTS
Mark
Holden
Senior VP, general counsel & corporate secretary, Koch Industries, Inc.
Mark Holden serves as senior vice president of Koch Industries, Inc., Chairman of the Board of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, Inc., Chairman of the Board of Americans for Prosperity Foundation, and is a long-time advocate for criminal justice reform. He has worked with the various Koch companies on a variety of litigation, regulatory, compliance, and commercial issues, and since 2009 Koch companies have earned more than 930 awards for safety, environmental excellence, community stewardship, innovation, and customer service. Mr. Holden has earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Massachusetts and his law degree from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America.
Jeffrey
Brown
President & CEO, Brown’s Superstores Inc., Founder, UpLift Solutions
Jeffrey Brown is President and CEO of Brown’s Super Stores and founder of UpLift Solutions. With a steadfast dedication to social issues and community interests and over 20 years of experience in the for-profit supermarket sphere, he has opened and oversees operations in ten ShopRite stores throughout the Philadelphia area, many of which are situated in what were previously considered “food desert” areas. He was an instrumental partner in the creation of the Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI), which President Obama adopted as the template for a national program, the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI), which allocates over $400 million to combat food deserts.
Paul
Butler
Albert Brick Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Paul Butler is one of the nation’s most frequently consulted scholars on issues of race and criminal justice, with his scholarship having been published in many leading scholarly journals and frequently in popular media. He is the Albert Brick Professor of Law at Georgetown University and regularly lectures for the American Bar Association and the NAACP. Previously, he has served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, specializing in public corruption, and as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting drug and gun cases. He is a cum laude graduate of Yale, and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
Robert
Listenbee
First Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office
Robert Listenbee, Esq. currently serves as First Assistant District Attorney at the Philadelphia Office of the District Attorney, where he works at local, state, and national levels on juvenile and criminal justice issues. Previously, he has served as the Stoneleigh Visiting Fellow and Director of Juvenile Justice System Enhancement Initiatives at Drexel University’s Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab and from 2013 to 2017, served as Administrator of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Obama administration. He has been instrumental in developing several specialty court programs designed to divert youth out of the juvenile justice system and reduce their risk of residential placement. He is a graduate of Harvard University and of the University of California, Berkeley.