Lucy Lang

New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang is an attorney, educator, and lifelong New Yorker. As New York State’s 11th Inspector General, Lucy Lang brings her longstanding commitment to justice to overseeing the Office’s investigations into corruption, fraud, abuse, and misconduct in state government, as well as deep experience designing and implementing practices that promote institutional integrity, transparency, and accountability. Prior to her appointment as Inspector General, Lang served as Director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution (IIP), a national criminal justice organization. She also served as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, where she investigated and prosecuted violent crimes, including homicides, gun violence, and domestic abuse, and served as Special Counsel for Policy and Projects. While at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and in collaboration with Columbia University’s Center for Justice, Inspector General Lang created Inside Criminal Justice, a first-of-its-kind college class for incarcerated students and prosecutors to study criminal justice and develop policy together. This is now a national model. Inspector General Lang has been widely recognized for her work, including receiving the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award from the American Psychological Association in 2020 as an educator who inspires her students in prison to make a difference in their communities.

Judith Clark is honored to be taking on the role of Director of the Survivors Justice Project. Before taking on this position, she worked for Hour Children, which serves women and their children in Bedford Hills and Taconic prisons and provides housing, family reunification, and services for women emerging from incarceration. In her role as Community Justice Advocate, she was active in coalition efforts toward parole and sentencing reform, closing Rikers and issues critical to women and their families impacted by the criminal legal system. During her 38 years in prison, she worked with her sisters to create peer organizations to address the challenges they faced and their desire to grow, take responsibility for the harm they caused, and repair relationships with their families and communities. She was a founder of ACE (AIDS Counseling and Education) and the committee that helped bring back college after public funding was eliminated. Working in the Children’s Center, she developed programs for mothers to sustain bonds with their children and mentored new mothers living in the prison nursery. She has written extensively about that work, the experience of mothers inside, the spiritual work of remorse, and the efforts of women inside to build community.