Kevin has spent his near-25 year career working in social justice-oriented organizations advocating for people on the margins of society.
Kevin worked as policy director of the Ohio Justice & Policy Center. He lead the organization’s criminal legal system reform and lobbying initiatives across all programs including human rights in prison, mass incarceration, second chance and OJPC’s women’s project for more than five years. Kevin led OJPC’s advocacy efforts on landmark legislation ending juvenile life without parole, ending executions for individuals with severe mental illness, expansion of Ohio’s safe harbor law for victims of human trafficking and numerous improvements to criminal-record sealing and expungement laws.
Prior to leading OJPC’s policy work, Kevin was the executive director of Ohioans to Stop Executions from 2007-2018 and the CEO of the OTSE Action Fund from 2015-2018. Under Kevin’s leadership, OTSE grew to be the largest single-issue death penalty repeal organization in Ohio. Kevin and his team at OTSE worked collaboratively with death penalty lawyers on 12 successful clemency campaigns helping to reduce the numbers of executions carried out in Ohio.
Kevin’s grassroots organizing skills took shape working for Citizens’ Campaigns Network from 2004-2007 as a canvass director for Clean Water Action, a national environmental citizen lobby organization, and Working America, a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Kevin led field canvass operations in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin, Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati.
Kevin’s passion working for death penalty repeal ignited while serving as a Jesuit Volunteer in Detroit, Michigan in 2000. There he met a woman whose family was torn apart by the murder of her daughter and subsequent reckoning with the possibility of the death penalty for the man who killed her daughter.
Kevin earned a B.A. in Political Science from Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, WV. He grew up outside of Philadelphia and now lives in Worthington with his spouse, two children, 2 dogs, and a cat. Kevin is the biggest Philadelphia sports fan west of the Schuylkill River.