Brigadoon Monthly Call | January 2021

Speaker: Louis L. Reed | Director of Organizing + Partnerships @ #Cut50

Louis L. Reed provides exemplary life coaching, reentry, and recovery-based services to individuals who need to mobilize their inner resources and tapping into the more significant potential to live a more purposeful life.

As the National Organizer for #Cut50, a coalition of directly impacted advocates to reduce crime and incarceration across all 50 states, Louis brings years of government, criminal justice expertise, policy advocacy, business, and public health.

Louis holds degrees in criminal justice and psychology and is a board-certified addictions counselor and licensed alcohol & addictions practitioner.

Before joining #Cut50, Louis was the Connecticut Policy Strategist for the Katal Center for Health, Equity and Justice, where he worked on SB-13, and ran his addiction and mental health practice in Bridgeport, CT, serving clients across Southern Connecticut.

Louis's experience in government includes conceptualizing and serving as director of the Mayor's Office for Reentry Affairs in the City of Bridgeport, CT. There, he developed systems and practices for the City to coordinate employment, housing, access to treatment, and other services for all persons impacted by the criminal justice system both in and returning to the City after incarceration.

His policy reform experience includes working with the Connecticut legislature to successfully enact legislation related to reforms to pretrial practices, expanding access to licenses for people living with criminal records, limiting asset forfeiture practices by law enforcement, and strengthening reentry practices and services for people returning from prison.

Louis is a Huffington Post contributor on Prison Traumatic Stress Disorder, has appeared on C-SPAN and MSNBC, and in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other publications.