Dan Salemson has over 20 years of experience in the workforce development field, expanding employment opportunities for those on the margins of society as a means of ending generational poverty. He is currently an adjunct instructor at SUNY Westchester Community College, working with low-income and first-generation students enrolled in certificate programs. He has directly overseen alternative-to-incarceration and reentry workforce development programs that operated inside the New York State Court System, connecting hundreds of young adults and adults to employment each year.  As a staff development and organizational consultant for the workforce development field, he has trained thousands of workforce practitioners on skills to better prepare those with significant barriers to employment (individuals with criminal legal records, young adults who have left school early, those in recovery from addiction, formerly homeless, etc.)  He has served as a subject matter expert for the Institute of Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College on development of Unlocking Employment: How to Partner with Job Seekers Impacted by the Legal System, a free 90-minute online course “designed to enhance skills and build capacity for working with job seekers who have legal-system involvement,” and is the primary author of Getting the RAP Down: Employment Strategies for New Yorkers with Criminal Records (2010), the first guide written specifically for New York City’s non-legal workforce development practitioners. Dan has traveled extensively, lived and worked in Italy and Kenya, and currently resides in New Jersey.