Soledad McGrath

Soledad A. McGrath is Senior Program Officer in the Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform Program at the Joyce Foundation, an organization that invests in strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility in the Great Lakes region. Prior to joining the Joyce Foundation in 2018, Soledad was with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Justice Reform program and worked on MacArthur’s criminal justice reform strategy.

Before joining the MacArthur Foundation, Soledad served as associate director and chief counsel at the American Bar Association’s Justice Center. In addition, she served as a post-graduate ChildLaw policy fellow at Loyola University School of Law’s Civitas ChildLaw Center and as the primary reporter for the State Bar of Georgia/Young Lawyers Division Juvenile Code Revision Project while in private practice. She began her legal career as an associate at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. Soledad earned her BA from Northwestern University and her JD from Emory University.