“Le’Ann Duran, Blue Meridian’s senior director of portfolio strategy and management, said that JLUSA is uniquely positioned to ‘bring a deep understanding of federal agencies to bear on this issue.’ Equally important, though, Duran said Blue Meridian doesn’t believe it can achieve its goals of creating economic and social mobility for people and families in poverty without considering people who have been impacted by the criminal legal system. That includes providing support to impacted people so they can advocate for the solutions that will actually help them. As we’ve seen, those are themes both national and regional justice reform funders have been paying attention to.”