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

Matt Alsdorf is an Associate Director at CEPP. He is an experienced lawyer and nonprofit leader whose work has focused on improving criminal justice policies and practices, particularly in the pretrial space. He was formerly Vice President of Criminal Justice at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, where he had primary responsibility for strategy and giving. With grants of more than $40 million in 2016, his team’s work covered areas including policing, forensic science, financial conditions of release, and criminal justice debt. His leadership was central to the development and expansion of the Foundation’s most prominent initiative: advancing pretrial justice. Mr. Alsdorf is the founder of Pretrial Advisors and has worked with many jurisdictions on improving pretrial policies and enhancing the delivery of justice. He spent many years as a litigator, representing both victims and defendants in federal criminal and civil cases. Mr. Alsdorf taught criminal procedure at Fordham Law School, served as a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, and developed and taught a Yale College seminar on constitutional law. He received his BA from Williams College and his JD from Yale Law School.