Sean Pica (Board Chair)

Sean Pica (Board Chair)

Executive Director, Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison

Sean Pica is the Executive Director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a not-for-profit organization that provides college education, life skills and re-entry support to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and women to help them make a positive impact on their own lives, their families and communities. Sean served as co-chair of the strategic planning process (2015-2016) that led to the formation of the Alliance. Sean serves on the New York State Council on Community Re-Entry and Reintegration, the Board of Trustees for the Sing Sing Prison Museum, was a founding member of the New York State Consortium for Higher Education in Prison, and a member of the Service Providers Advisory Committee, which collaborates on policy issues in the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Recently Sean founded and launched New Beginnings, a reentry housing initiative for the Hudson Link students where formerly incarcerated students renovate abandoned properties and bring them back to life to create housing for other returning students.