Juli Ana Grant serves as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) at the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. She advises and provides training and technical assistance to states and tribes on the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to help develop innovative ways to enhance community safety. Ms. Grant also works on the Justice Department’s Tribal Access Program, which provides tribes with the ability to exchange critical data, including biographic and biometric information on sex offenders. Before assuming her position at SMART, Ms. Grant worked at the Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women, providing support to state coalitions combating sexual and domestic violence.
Prior to joining the Justice Department, Ms. Grant was a Program Manager for the Sex Offense Management and Domestic Violence Programs and the Tribal Justice Exchange Project at the Center for Justice Innovation in New York. She managed the development and implementation of sex offense management programs, specialized sex offense courts and domestic violence courts. She also developed collaborative projects, coordinated grant writing for innovative approaches, trained advocates and other professionals, and participated in county- and state-wide management committees. As part of the Tribal Justice Exchange Project team, Ms. Grant ensured tribal communities had access to training and ongoing technical assistance for problem-solving community-based practices and encouraged formal collaborations between traditional tribal justice systems and state and local court systems. In addition, she provided technical assistance to states on domestic violence issues and helped design and develop protocols, research projects, service plans, resources and techniques for documenting results.
Ms. Grant also served as the Director of Safe Horizon’s Brooklyn Criminal and Supreme Courts Programs and the Brooklyn Family Justice Center where she supervised victim services in the Brooklyn criminal courts, the King’s County District Attorney’s Office, the Red Hook Community Justice Center and the Family Justice Center. During her tenure, Ms. Grant expanded outreach to underserved communities and developed early intervention projects for domestic and sexual violence victims. Additionally, Ms. Grant oversaw the restitution program for victims of crime, as well as two child-care facilities that provided care for children with families involved in the criminal courts system.
Ms. Grant began her career working for programs focused on providing resources and information to survivors of domestic and sexual violence, which inspired her continued work on victims’ rights and services, offender accountability and how to make systems and courts be part of community safety solutions.