Ronald Chatters, III

Alumnus, Woodrow Wilson School (M.P.A. 2008)
Comcast Leadership Scholar & Juris Doctor Candidate, University of Maryland School of Law

ronaldchattersiii@gmail.com
phone: (410) 962-8086
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Ronald Chatters, III, is a Comcast Leadership Scholar and second-year law student at the University of Maryland School of Law.  His interests include prisoners' rights and prison reform, juvenile justice, sentencing reform, disproportionate minority confinement, and the collateral consequences of incarceration on individuals, communities and families. 

Ronald was previously a litigation assistant with the Prison Law Office (PLO) in San Quentin, California where he monitored the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) compliance with a court order to provide reasonable accommodations to prisoners and parolees with disabilities as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  As a Princeton University Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Fellow and Columbia University Third Millennium Foundation Human Rights Fellow, he has also worked with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California’s Jails Project, the Correctional Association of New York, and the United Nations’ Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD) in São Paulo, Brazil.  He is a member of the Greater Baltimore Young Leadership Association (the young professionals auxiliary of the Greater Baltimore Urban League), 2^nd Vice President of the Black Law Students Association at the University of Maryland, and a tutor with A Bridge to Academic Excellence (a tutoring program for middle and high school students in Baltimore City).  He holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics-Political Science from Columbia University (2004) and a Masters in Public Affairs (M.P.A.) from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs and International Relations at Princeton University (2008).

In an era when mass incarceration has become a national phenomenon, Ronald is deeply committed to protecting the rights of prisoners and advocating for prison reform.  He aims to become an expert in crime and criminal justice policy.  More importantly, he strives to shape the direction of criminal justice policy so that the system will become more equitable, efficient, and humane for all people regardless of their race, socioeconomic, or citizenship status.