Vera Institute of Justice

Adair Iacono leads Vera’s legal department, which provides comprehensive in-house legal services to the organization that include risk management, spin-off, contracting, compliance, advice on personnel matters, and development of organizational policy. She joined Vera as the 2010–2011 Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellow in Nonprofit Law and rose through the ranks as assistant and associate general counsel before becoming general counsel and now, chief legal and information officer. As secretary to Vera’s board of trustees, Adair also advises the board on corporate governance.

Adair is a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Nonprofit Organizations Committee.

Adair holds an AB from Princeton University and a JD from New York University School of Law, where she was a student research fellow at the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law.