Our team is built on individuals with various backgrounds in the criminal justice field.

Leilah Gilligan is a Director at CEPP, where she also serves on the organization’s Board of Directors. She is the Co-Director of the Community Supervision Resource Center and the Project Manager for the Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research initiative. She has two decades of experience managing large-scale, national training and technical assistance and resource development projects. In her capacity as CEPP Director, she oversees the organization’s grant writing, human resources, operations, finance, and logistics functions. She has served as an author, contributor, and editor of numerous CEPP publications on topics including probation and parole supervision and decision making, violence against women, and criminal justice system collaboration.

Prior to joining CEPP, Ms. Gilligan supervised and provided crisis counseling to people in a community corrections setting and managed an initiative to offer enhanced training to judges on issues of domestic violence and sexual assault. Ms. Gilligan holds BA degrees in English and in criminology and criminal justice and an MA degree in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland, College Park. Ms. Gilligan began her career with CEPP in 1996.