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

Spike Bradford
Communications Manager
Spike Bradford is the Communications Manager for the Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research (APPR) initiative. He has served in a variety of research, analysis, and communications roles for nonprofit organizations focused on the criminal justice system, including the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA), Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI), Justice Policy Institute (JPI), and Marijuana Policy Project (MPP). He also worked in the research branch of the State of Hawaiʻi Department of the Attorney General and as a consultant for several leading criminal justice system policy and advocacy organizations. Mr. Bradford holds a master of arts in sociology (criminology) from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a master of education from Bowling Green State University.