Khalil A. Cumberbatch is director of strategic partnerships at the Council on Criminal Justice. He and Marc A. Levin lead the council’s Centering Justice Initiative
Cumberbatch is a nationally recognized, formerly incarcerated advocate for criminal justice and deportation policy reform. Previously, he served as chief ctrategist at New Yorkers United for Justice and as Associate Vice President of Policy at the Fortune Society. Pardoned by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014, Cumberbatch earned a master's degree in social work from CUNY Lehman College, where he was awarded the Urban Justice Award for his work with underserved and marginalized communities. He is also a lecturer at Columbia University.
Cumberbatch can be reached at khalil@counciloncj.org and on X at @KhaCumberbatch.
