Vera Institute of Justice

Ed Chung is the vice president of initiatives and a member of Vera’s leadership team. He heads Vera’s national initiatives portfolio and the Impact Pipeline, the organization’s primary avenue to innovate and pilot new ideas. Ed is a national leader on criminal legal and public safety issues, having more than two decades of legal and policymaking experience, including positions with the White House Domestic Policy Council and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

Before joining Vera, Ed was vice president of criminal justice reform at the Center for American Progress. He also previously served as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he worked on some of the Obama Administration’s signature priorities, such as the My Brother’s Keeper initiative and efforts to improve public safety and police accountability practices. Ed began his career as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, before subsequently working as a federal prosecutor in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

Ed holds a BA from Boston College and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center.