In her professional life, Soraya Denis serves as a senior program coordinator with the NYC Department of Correction (DOC), focusing on juvenile re-entry issues in the Youthful Offender Programming Division. It's rewarding work, she said, but like many ambitious John Jay alumni, it's only one part of her commitment to giving back to those groups that helped put her where she is today. read more 

Brian Carl BS'83 (Criminal Justice) is Senior Managing Director and Director of Investigations/Americas - K2 Intelligence.

Christelle N. Onwu  BA'10 (Humanities and Justice Studies)  is a Human Rights Specialist at the New York City Commission on Human Rights, a Coro fellow with the New York Leadership Center (Immigrant Civic Leadership Program), and an alumna of the New American Leaders Program. She is a fierce advocate for under-served populations with a focus on African communities in New York City. She has published an article in the Columbia Social Work Review analyzing the issue of female genital cutting in the U.K. and made culturally-sensitive policy recommendations to reduce this practice. She graduated from Columbia University School of Social Work.