Alejo is the Project Director of Community-Centered Participatory Justice for the Center Institutional and Social Change and Lecturer of Law of Breakthrough in Advocacy Through Transformative Learning Exchange (BATTLE) at Columbia Law School, engaging law school students in a participatory learning exchange with formerly incarcerated community leaders and advocates on the systemic qualities of mass incarceration, emphasizing the importance Trauma-Informed Lawyering; Also professor Professor of Punishment, Prisons and Global (In)justice and Community Based Research and Advocacy Against Structural Racism at The New School. A public speaker, teaching artist, poet, and author of Obscure Legacy of Mass Incarceration: Parole Board Abuse of Parole Eligible Lifers. Alejo is a social justice activist for dismantling the prison-industrial complex and structural racism and providing leadership in building participatory collaborations through skill-based learning exchanges between law school students and individuals who have direct lived experience with incarceration. Alejo has previously served as a Research Consultant for MDRC’s Council of Lived Experience Advisors; and is a standing Board of Directors member of both Gideon’s Promise and the Parole Preparation Project. Founder of Participatory Justice Associates, LLC, consultancy Alejo holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Syracuse University, and a Master of Professional Studies Degree from the New York Theological Seminary.