Executive Director and President, Measures for Justice
Amy Bach is the Founder and Executive Director of Measures for Justice, a criminal justice nonprofit with a mission to make good criminal justice data available and actionable to spur reform.
Amy founded the organization in 2011 as a follow-up to her acclaimed book, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court, which won the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. For her work on Ordinary Injustice, Ms. Bach received a Soros Media Fellowship, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship.
Amy was a Knight Foundation Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School and is a graduate of Stanford Law School. In 2012, she taught Criminal Law during the spring semester at the University of Buffalo Law School as a Visiting Professor.
In 2019, she won the Academy of Criminal Justice Science's Leadership and Innovation Award and the Charles Bronfman Prize for young humanitarians. She lives in Rochester, NY, where Measures for Justice is based.