Bob Libal
Executive Director, Grassroots Leadership
Event Speakers
Bob Libal is Executive Director of Grassroots Leadership, based in Austin. His work has centered on decarceration issues, including prison privatization, immigration detention, and criminal justice reform. He has written numerous reports and articles for Grassroots Leadership, including Operation Streamline: Costs and Consequences and The Dirty Thirty: Nothing to Celebrate About 30 Years of Corrections Corporation of America. In 2017, he was named one of the people changing the nonprofit world by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. He is a 2003 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.