Juvenile Justice
Program Staff
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Laurie R. Garduque
Director, Justice Reform
Email: lgarduqu at macfound dot org
Laurie Garduque joined the Foundation in 1991 after serving as Director of the National Forum on the Future of Children and Families, a joint project of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine. From 1984 to 1987, she was the Director of Governmental and Professional Liaison for the American Educational Research Association in Washington, D.C. This position followed the year she spent, from 1983 to 1984, as a Congressional Science Fellow in the U.S. Senate. From 1980 to 1985, Garduque held a faculty position as an Assistant Professor in human development at Pennsylvania State University.
Garduque previously was a member of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families, and the Youth Transition Funders Group Juvenile Justice Working Group, and she currently serves on the federal Center for Mental Health Services National Advisory Council, under SAMHSA. She received her bachelor's degree in Psychology and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles. |
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Candice Jones
Program Officer
Email: cjones at macfound dot org
Candice Jones is a Program Officer for Juvenile Justice in U.S. Programs. Jones joined the Foundation after serving as a litigator for the law firm, Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg, where she focused on complex commercial matters. While pursuing her professional degree, Candice spent time at the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division and the Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem, both in New York. She also has worked in Chicago as a rape crisis advocate and in Japan as an English Language Instructor.
Jones received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and African and African-American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law.
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Patrick Griffin
Program Officer
Email: pgriffin at macfound dot org
Patrick Griffin is a Program Officer for Juvenile Justice in U.S. Programs. Before joining the Foundation, he was a writer, researcher, legal analyst, and director of projects for the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), where he became a national authority on comparative legal analysis of state transfer and blended sentencing laws. His research and writings ranged over the whole field of juvenile justice: he directed evaluations of a statewide delinquency grant funding initiative in Pennsylvania and a state-administered dependency attorney-procurement system in Maryland; served as principal investigator on a study of jurisdictional change options commissioned by the state of Vermont; co-edited a nationally-used juvenile probation practice guidebook; and had a lead role in planning, monitoring, assessing and documenting the multi-state Models for Change juvenile justices systems reform initiative.
Griffin began his career as an attorney, and before joining NCJJ had practical experience as an editor of business-oriented legal publications and as a freelance journalist whose essays, profiles, and general-interest reporting appeared in magazines and newspapers nationwide.
Griffin graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. |
Stephen Stinson
Program Administrator |
Mary McClanahan
Executive Secretary |
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