Adam Mansky became chair of the Transportation Alternatives board of directors this January. He joined the board in 2014; and from 2009 through last fall, he also served as co-chair of the Transportation Alternatives advisory council. In his day job, Adam is director of operations for the Center for Court Innovation, a non-profit that works to create a more effective and humane justice system. The Center seeks to improve public safety and reduce unnecessary incarceration through the use of community-based alternatives to incarceration and pretrial detention, by designing ambitious, cutting-edge operating projects, performing original research, and providing expert assistance. Adam supervises the Center’s community courts and criminal justice programs, including the Red Hook Community Justice Center, the Midtown Community Court, and Newark Community Solutions. He also supervises the Center’s technology department. Before joining the Center for Court Innovation, Adam practiced law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law. A lifelong New Yorker and daily bike commuter, Adam lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Chloe Wasserman, and their three terrific children.