Kyle Barry

Barry is the Executive Director of the State Law Research Initiative (SLRI), a legal advocacy organization dedicated to expanding state constitutional rights against criminal punishments, with a focus on excessive incarceration and inhumane conditions of confinement. Previously, Barry served as Senior Counsel at The Justice Collaborative, where he focused on reducing incarceration through local policy reforms to the criminal legal system, and as a Managing Editor at The Appeal. Before that, he was Senior Policy Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and the Director of Justice Programs at Alliance for Justice in Washington, DC, where his advocacy and research focused on judicial nominations, voting rights, and economic justice. Barry has written extensively on the courts, judges, and civil rights, with reporting and commentary in The Appeal, Bolts Magazine, The New York Times, Slate, The Nation, and Politico, among other outlets. He clerked on the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont.

• Constitutional law
• State constitutional law
• Criminal law
• Civil rights

• Yale Law School (JD)
• University of Vermont (BA)