Briana Payton, AM '20
Director of Policy and Advocacy
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Briana is a graduate of Princeton University (BA) and of the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice (AM). She is an advocate for radical transformation in the criminal legal system and all systems that play a role in racial injustice against Black, Brown and low income communities. Briana has worked in research, policy, government, nonprofit, and educational spaces and will advance into any space where she sees the opportunity to do transformative justice work for the most marginalized members of her community.
