Senior Director 

Nashla Rivas Salas joined CANY in January 2023, as a Senior Director on the monitoring and reporting team. Her responsibilities include leading and building the internal capacity of CANY’s monitoring by developing protocols and processes and providing training on good practices in prison oversight. Nashla manages a team of four who are responsible for planning and implementing monitoring visits across the state, authoring reports, and conducting research and analysis on key areas in corrections. Prior to joining CANY, Nashla worked at the NYC Board of Correction as the Deputy Executive Director of Oversight and Evaluation monitoring conditions in NYC jails. Nashla earned a master’s in public administration from NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and a BA in Urban Studies at Queens College. She is a board member for the National Association of Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE) where she chairs the jail and prison oversight committee and an advisory board member for the John Jay Master of Public Administration Inspection and Oversight Program.