Born in South Carolina and raised in the Adirondacks, Dr. Alice P. Green began her career as a secondary school teacher and social worker. For many years, she directed Trinity Institution, a youth and family services center in Albany’s South End. While there, she also did community organizing and founded the South End Scene, one of the longest published Black newspapers in Albany. Dr. Green served as legislative director of the New York Civil Liberties Union in the early 1980s and in 1986 was appointed by Gov. Mario Cuomo as deputy commissioner of the state Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives.
In 1985, Dr. Green founded the Albany-based Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit civil rights organization, where she served as executive director for almost four decades. The Center provides community education on civil and criminal justice, legal guidance and advocacy, crisis intervention, and community planning and organizing around criminal justice, civil rights and civil liberties issues of particular concern to poor communities and those of color.
Dr. Green was the author of several books, including her 2023 memoir Outsider: Stories of Growing Up Black in the Adirondacks. She wrote and lectured on racism and criminal justice, and frequently contributed commentary and analysis for several newspapers and television and radio programs. Dr. Green was an adjunct professor at the University at Albany, has also taught at Russell Sage and Siena College. Dr. Green earned three master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University at Albany.
