CBPS Collective
Alisa Blair is an accomplished legal professional and educator currently serving as an Adjunct Professor of Law at UC Irvine, where Alisa teaches Criminal Procedure and a seminar focused on racial justice in the criminal legal system. In addition to academia, Alisa holds the position of Policy and Special Projects Director at the Community Based Public Safety Collective, working to enhance neighborhood leadership and safety through grassroots organizations. Alisa also serves as the Interim Policy Director at the Pacific Juvenile Defender Center, advocating for systemic reforms in juvenile defense. Prior experience includes advising the District Attorney on juvenile matters in Los Angeles County and serving as a Deputy Public Defender for nearly eighteen years. Alisa holds a Juris Doctor from USC Gould School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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CBPS Collective
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We are a collective of experts in building neighborhood leadership to advance safety -- the groups on the ground that do the work day in and day out to mediate conflict, get people in crisis into supportive services and put youth on a path away from violence and to stability. We represent and support the dozens of small, nonprofit, community-led grassroots organizations that, for decades, have been helping to forge peace, with little support or official recognition from policymakers, elected officials or funding agencies. Investing in the community-based public safety leaders is the key difference-maker in stopping violence, ending mass incarceration and setting the nation on a transformational course toward a shared safety model rooted in systems of care, healing and community self-determination.