Yumari L. Martínez joined Vera in May 2007 as a senior program associate for the Center on Youth Justice. He just completed a Clinical Teaching Fellowship at New York University (NYU) School of Law, co-teaching the Offender Reentry Clinic. He previously worked as a senior project director at the Center for Community Problem Solving at NYU. There, he directed ambitious projects related to reentry and economic development and spearheaded efforts to address the unmet needs of New York City's youth. In 2003, Yumari received an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to implement the center's innovative and demanding Consumer Survey of Problem-Solving Resources. Before joining the center, Yumari worked as law guardian at New York City's Legal Aid Society Juvenile Right’s Division representing juveniles in delinquency proceedings. He also represented death penalty clients in Alabama as a post-graduate fellow at the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama. He graduated from NYU Law School in 2001.