Arienne Jones is a Senior Program Manager, Justice and Equity at The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions (AFCS), where she works on initiatives geared toward positively impacting system-impacted persons.

Prior to her role at the AFCS, Arienne served as Senior Policy Advisor at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago, where she worked on a variety of justice-related issues intended to help remedy some of the ills of mass incarceration. These included revamping the CCSAO’s clemency policies to be more holistic, resulting in a 25 percent decline in the number of objections to clemency issued by the office; authoring a law that allowed people with felony prostitution convictions to have those records expunged; and writing Illinois’ prosecutor-initiated resentencing law, which gives prosecutors the discretion to ask judges to resentence incarcerated persons when prosecutors no longer believe that a sentence serves the interests of justice.

Additionally, she was a federal judicial law clerk in Alabama; a housing discrimination investigator at the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center (LFHAC); and a Law Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Florida. Arienne was also a Fulbright Scholar to Spain.

Arienne earned her J.D. from Tulane University Law School and a B.A. in History with a Spanish Minor from Spelman College, magna cum laude, where she was inducted into The Phi Beta Kappa Society. She is a member of the Bar in Alabama, Illinois, and Florida.