Our Mission
Identify and fill critical service gaps for justice-impacted individuals and their loved ones through partnerships and inventive solutions.
Our Vision
To create safe, supportive, and innovative spaces and services that uplift underserved and marginalized populations.
RESEARCH
Conduct and support research while convening forums on overlooked areas of practice that aid system-involved populations, leveraging current, evidence-based research.
EDUCATION
Share and advocate our insights when we discover innovations or findings that can enhance access to education and learning opportunities for underserved communities and marginalized populations. Provide training and education to criminal justice professionals to amplify their positive impact.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Share our insights and perspectives whenever we uncover innovations or findings that can positively transform the justice system and those impacted by it.
PERSONAL & FAMILY SAFETY
Collaborate to develop and implement programs and opportunities associated with pathways to re-entry success.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Manage a scholarship fund for returning students pursuing careers in finance.
Our Team
Ann M. Schlarb Ph.D
Board Chair
Dr. Ann Schlarb serves as Board Chair for Moss Justice Partners. She began her career in 1986 working as a detention and later probation officer.
Ann M. Schlarb, Ph.D.
Dr. Ann Schlarb serves as Board Chair for Moss Justice Partners. She began her career in 1986 working as a detention and later probation officer. She was Assistant Director of Operations and Treatment for a residential probation facility in San Antonio, Texas, with a goal of preventing the return to custody for individuals who had violated terms of probation.
Ann joined BI Incorporated in 1995 and was involved in the design, development, implementation, and operation of two national programs, one providing reentry services to justice-involved individuals, and the other overseeing field operations for an immigration services division. In 2012, Ann was named Divisional Vice President, overseeing BI, Incorporated when it was acquired as a wholly owned subsidiary to The GEO Group.
In 2014, Ann was promoted to Senior Vice President and President of GEO Care. As President of GEO Care, Ann oversaw the GEO Continuum of Care, GEO Reentry Services, Abraxas Youth Services, and BI, Incorporated. These divisions encompassed GEO’s enhanced in-prison rehabilitation programs, intensive residential and non-residential programming, electronic monitoring technology and services, and community-based immigration services.
Ann has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, a master’s in Organizational Management, and a doctoral degree in Psychology. Her dissertation focused on the gaps women face in our criminal justice system. Ann is a board member for the Association of Women Executives in Corrections (AWEC) and serves as the Committee Chair for the Mentoring Program. Today, in addition to her consulting services, Ann is a certified End of Life Doula, bringing peace and dignity to patients and their loved ones as they navigate their unique end of life experiences.
Reginald Wilkinson, Ed.D.
Secretary
Dr. Reginald "Reggie" Wilkinson has over fifty years of justice work and education experience.
Sam Moss
Dr. Reginald "Reggie" Wilkinson has over fifty years of justice work and education experience. Among other positions, he served as the Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction for over 15 years. He is a past president of both the American Correctional Association and the Correctional Leaders Association. As well, he has led two higher education non-profit organizations and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for The Ohio State University.
Sam Moss
Treasurer
Sam is President of Impact Advisory Services and East Lake Housing Corporation, a subsidiary of the East Lake Foundation, an early developer and investor in mixed income properties in Atlanta.
Sam Moss
Sam is President of Impact Advisory Services and East Lake Housing Corporation, a subsidiary of the East Lake Foundation, an early developer and investor in mixed income properties in Atlanta.
An Executive-in-Residence at Goizueta Business School’s social enterprise program at Emory University, Sam is also Chairman of the Georgia Social Impact Collaborative (GSIC)and is a board member of The Moss Justice Partners and the Martin Luther King Senior Community Resource Center. He serves on the advisory boards of Focused Community Strategies and New American Pathways. He is the past Chairman of the Atlanta Arts Loan Fund and the Atlanta Ballet.
Sam spent more than 25 years at Wachovia Bank, where he held executive positions in International and Corporate Banking, Capital Markets and Wealth Management. He has also served as President of Gray Matters Capital, affiliated with Gray Ghost Ventures, an early investor in microfinance in emerging economies and impact enterprises.
An active supporter of the arts and a cyclist, Sam is a graduate of Williams College.
Karen Wilson
Board Member
Karen is an award-winning consultant in leadership development, who is passionate about working with individuals and teams to improve their effectiveness and potential.
Karen Wilson
Karen is an award-winning consultant in leadership development, who is passionate about working with individuals and teams to improve their effectiveness and potential. Karen delights in opportunities to leave leaders, organizations, and society better than she found them. She serves clients through facilitation to enable groups to achieve their desired outcomes, individual and small group executive coaching to help leaders accomplish their goals, and leadership development training.
Prior to exclusively focusing on leadership development, coaching, and facilitation, Karen served clients as a management consultant for largely public sector clients for over 25 years at firms such as Arthur Andersen and PwC. She joined PwC in 2008 and was admitted to the partnership in 2012. She was selected to be on the PwC Chairman’s Partner Advisory Committee, has held P&L responsibility, and built deep client relationships and high-performing teams, managing business units of 500+ people. She developed expertise in large-scale program management, process improvement, and risk management.
Karen focused her masters’ degree (M.D.E., University of Maryland) studies on adult learning, and has designed, developed, and delivered a wide variety of training programs in leadership and technical topics throughout her career. She has her executive and leadership coach certification from Leadership Systems, Inc. She also has certifications in facilitation (Association for Talent Development), action learning (World Institute for Action Learning), and administration of the Leadership Circle Profile™ 360° tool.
Karen holds two bachelors degrees from Boston University (B.S. Journalism, B.A. History). Originally from Rochester, NY, she has lived her adult life in Washington, DC, where she lives with her husband, dog, and younger son - for whom she can often be found watching a sport (rock) climbing competition in gyms across the country. She is also the proud mom of her older son, a U.S. Coast Guardsman.
Anadora “Andie” Moss
Board Member
Andie Moss is founder and president of The Moss Group (TMG), a criminal justice consulting firm established in 2002.
Anadora “Andie” Moss
Andie Moss is founder and president of The Moss Group (TMG), a criminal justice consulting firm established in 2002. Ms. Moss is also the founding member of Moss Justice Partners (MJP), a non-profit dedicated to thought leadership, research, and safety for justice-impacted individuals.
After a rewarding career in state and federal government, Andie established TMG to build an experienced team of practitioners with a dedication to excellence in correctional practice. TMG works extensively in implementing strategies to assist organizations in enhancing cultures of safety through application of research, operational practice, and best practices in leadership and change management.
In 1992, Ms. Moss was appointed to serve as the commissioner’s representative onsite, during the Cason v. Seckinger general conditions lawsuit, to oversee a large-scale investigation into staff sexual misconduct at the state’s largest women’s facility implementing court ordered reform efforts. In implementing a challenging systemic change initiative of reform, Ms. Moss became dedicated to a professional path that led her to the National Institute of Corrections as a program manager in 1995 to continue to develop strategies to assist facilities in systemic change initiatives.
Ms. Moss has dedicated her personal and professional life to serving others and making an impact to the profession she loves. She is currently serving as an expert advisor for the Council on Criminal Justice, Women’s Justice Commission and recently completed her term as a non-alcoholic Trustee to the Board of Alcoholics Anonymous. Ms. Moss is the past-chair for the ACA Women Working in Corrections Committee, and a founding member and past president of the Association of Women Executives in Corrections.
Ms. Moss has proudly received several high honors for her work, including the NIC Executive Director’s Award and the Association of Women Executives in Correction’s Susan M. Hunter Award. She also received the American Correctional Association’s E.R. Cass Award, and American Jail Association's Francis R. “Dick” Ford Distinguished Service Award.
Ms. Moss received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Georgia and her Master’s in Education from the University of Idaho.
Patrice Gaines
Board Member
Patrice Gaines is an accomplished author, journalist, and certified life coach, dedicated to empowering women to transform their lives.
Patrice Gaines
Patrice Gaines is an accomplished author, journalist, and certified life coach, dedicated to empowering women to transform their lives. As a passionate justice advocate, she travels across the country sharing her personal journey to promote criminal justice reform and inspire judges, lawyers, prison officials, and those currently incarcerated or rebuilding their lives. She has led transformation workshops in prisons, drug rehabilitation programs, and women’s retreats.
Most recently, Gaines co-authored Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America, contributing a chapter titled “Locking Up Black Lives,” which examines the history and impact of mass incarceration on Black communities. Her autobiography, Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color, a Journey from Prison to Power, chronicles her transformation from a heroin user, convicted felon, and abused woman to an award-winning journalist and dedicated mother. She is also the author of Moments of Grace, which outlines her personal path to change.
Gaines spent 16 years as a reporter for The Washington Post, where she was part of a team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A longtime advocate for justice, she received a Soros Justice Media Fellowship to write a national series on the impact of incarceration on Black communities. In Charlotte, NC, she has taught parenting, anger management, and life skills classes at the local jail and has worked to combat housing and employment discrimination against individuals with criminal records.
Her life story was also captured in a short film by Chiquita Lockley titled Master Class: The Patrice Gaines Story, which has been featured at film festivals nationwide. An outspoken abolitionist, Gaines believes in reducing crime without relying on the mass incarceration of human beings.
Patrice Gaines currently resides in Lake Wylie, SC.
Photo © Kat Goduco
Arthur Chiles
Board Member
Arthur Chiles is currently a Managing Director in Client Development with Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Interim Legal Talent practice and is an independent consultant through his company, Artchways Solutions.
Arthur Chiles
Arthur Chiles is currently a Managing Director in Client Development with Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Interim Legal Talent practice and is an independent consultant through his company, Artchways Solutions. He joins the MJP board as he affirms, “To live my many passions and purposes, one of which is giving back to underserved communities.”
As a career management consultant with over 20 years of experience in advisory roles, Arthur has strategically guided business and governmental leaders through change and process improvement initiatives with a steady hand. He is certified in organizational change management (OCM) and business process improvement and helps his clients understand the criticality of comprehensive change and project management methodologies through two-way dialogue and collaboration.
Before joining Major, Lindsey & Africa, Arthur was a managing director in the Strategic Communications practice area at FTI Consulting, serving clients in the Washington, D.C., metro region. Prior to FTI Consulting, he led many human capital-focused engagements for several consulting firms including PwC, Guidehouse, Grant Thornton and Perot Systems Government Services.
He has advised clients across public and private sector operating environments—where he built award-winning, best-fit change and communications strategies to support cross-functional interdependencies (e.g., across Legal, HR, IT, Finance and Ops organizations).
In the public sector, Arthur’s strategic planning and policy project work has been recognized in the highest levels of government, with accolades from Congress and the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
He has experience driving desired project outcomes across a variety of disciplinary and business areas such as: civil rights and human services, healthcare, transportation, information technology (IT), aviation, energy, defense/national defense, procurement and retail.
Arthur graduated from Salisbury University on Maryland’s eastern shore with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in Graphic Design with marketing and Spanish concentrations. He also attended the University of Málaga in Spain, receiving a diploma as part of a Cultural Immersion program.
A native Marylander, Arthur resides in Bowie with his family and enjoys good food, music, and the outdoors.
Rev. Dr. Barbara Ridley
Board Member
Rev. Dr. Barbara Ridley is a trailblazer in ministry and criminal justice, known for her compassionate leadership and dedication to serving others.
Rev. Dr. Barbara Ridley
is a trailblazer in ministry and criminal justice, known for her compassionate leadership and dedication to serving others. She retired after 32 years as Minister of Comfort at Ebenezer AME Church, where she founded the nationally acclaimed Department of Comfort and Congregational Care, a model for grief support. An ordained Itinerant Elder with 34 years of preaching, she has equipped leaders nationwide to care for the sick and bereaved. Before ministry, she broke barriers as the first African American woman to work in an all-male prison and held leadership roles in law enforcement. With advanced degrees in Sociology, Psychology, Divinity, and Ministry, Dr. Ridley continues to honor God by empowering others and advocating for women’s well-being, while cherishing her beloved family.
Rodney Mitchell
Board Member
Rodney is a native of Southeast Washington D.C. and a proud product of D.C. Public Schools.
Rodney Mitchell
Rodney is a native of Southeast Washington D.C. and a proud product of D.C. Public Schools. As a young adult, Rodney personally experienced the devastation of the crack cocaine epidemic of the 80’s and 90’s, incarceration, street gangs, and violence on the streets of Washington D.C. and South Central Los Angeles California. After many hard lessons, Rodney became an anti-gang violence advocate and joined local efforts to end gang violence in Los Angeles. Rodney went back to school and studied African American Studies and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He later went on to study law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington DC. Rodney was barred in his beloved hometown— DC. As a grateful survivor, Rodney has spent most of his career in the District of Columbia practicing public interest law and serving as a prisoner reentry advocate.
Dr. LaToya Wesley-Colm
Executive Director
Dr. LaToya Wesley-Colm is the Executive Director of Moss Justice Partners, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit dedicated to advancing social justice and equity within the community.
Ann M. Schlarb, Ph.D.
Dr. LaToya Wesley-Colm is the Executive Director of Moss Justice Partners, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit dedicated to advancing social justice and equity within the community. With over 20 years of experience in social science, LaToya has developed a deep expertise in resource mobilization, grant administration, criminal justice research, evaluation, fundraising, and strategic planning.
In addition to her leadership at Moss Justice Partners, LaToya serves as a key figure at the Resonance Network, where she plays an instrumental role in resource mobilization for anti-violence organizers. Through her work, she strengthens the organization’s partnerships by showcasing transformative outcomes, ultimately securing deeper engagement and sustained support.
Our Initiatives
THE ANAT PROJECT: Bridging Data Science and Criminal Justice Practices
In collaboration with Moss Justice Partners (MJP), the Anat Project seeks to engage with scholars and researchers exploring topics identified as gaps in the criminal justice system and disseminate their findings to judges and other judicial system actors. By sharing evolving evidence-based criminology research data, this will help avoid implicit bias, reduce recidivism, and promote successful reentry.