Adam Culbreath

Adam Culbreath is a Senior Program Advisor with Galaxy Gives. He previously was at the Open Society Foundations, where for over 15 years he worked on the Soros Justice Fellowships, a program that for over two decades has supported a diverse array of emerging and established leaders and voices who have explored and envisioned new possibilities for justice in the United States and its territories.

He has held roles at The After-School Corporation (now ExpandedED), where he launched City Scholars, a citywide youth development and training program in New York City; and at the Center for Court Innovation (now Center for Justice Innovation), where he was the founding project coordinator of the School Justice Center, New York’s first school-based restorative justice youth court. A lawyer by training, Adam also practiced law at Legal Services of Northern California and at the National Center for Youth Law.

He holds degrees from Brown University and Stanford Law School. He was born in Syracuse, New York, and has lived in: Kingston, Ontario (Canada); Montreal, Quebec (Canada); College Station, Texas; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Providence, Rhode Island; Salvador, Bahia (Brazil); Aspen, Colorado; numerous cities in California (Palo Alto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Oakland); and New York City.

He has finally settled down, for now, in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives with his family.