Speaker
Mar 18, 2026: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Virtual
Hernandez D. Stroud ’15L is a senior fellow in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program. An authority on prisons and jails, correctional oversight, and constitutional law, he researches the scope of the federal government’s power to fashion structural and systemic reforms that prevent and remedy the failure of state and local criminal justice institutions to observe the constitutional rights of incarcerated people. He also drafts and spearheads federal criminal legal and policy reforms.
Stroud currently holds adjunct professorships at both Columbia University and NYU School of Law, and he is an affiliated fellow at Yale Law School. He has been featured in national media outlets including The New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, TIME, and NPR. He is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching, research, and policy, including selection to Forbes’ “30 Under 30.
Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Stroud was the inaugural recipient of the Robert F. Drinan Visiting Assistant Professorship at Boston College Law School. He has also served as a visiting assistant professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Before his professorships, Stroud held an academic fellowship at Yale Law School. While at Yale, he was also acting director of policy for Mayor Toni N. Harp of New Haven, Connecticut.
A first-generation college graduate, Stroud earned his undergraduate degree with from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, his master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his law degree with from Washington and Lee University School of Law.
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