Soledad McGrath
Soledad Adrianzén McGrath is the Joyce Foundation’s Program Director for the Gun Violence Prevention and Justice Reform Program, leading the Foundation’s three-pronged justice reform strategy advancing policing, system reform, and violence prevention. She previously was executive director of Northwestern University’s Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science (CORNERS). Soledad rejoined the Foundation in January 2026, having previously served as the Gun Violence Prevention and Justice Reform Program’s Senior Program Officer from 2018-2020. She also was a Program Officer with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Justice Reform program and an associate director and chief counsel at the American Bar Association’s Justice Center. Soledad also served as co-chair of the Policing and Community Engagement subcommittee of the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities, a Chicago-based violence prevention funder collaborative. Soledad began her legal career with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. Soledad earned her Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University and her JD from Emory University.
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