Robin Steinberg is an American lawyer and social justice advocate[1] who is currently the chief executive officer of the Bail Project,[2] an organization modeled after The Bronx Freedom Fund, which she founded with her husband David Feige in 2007.
[3][4] Steinberg is the founder and former executive director of The Bronx Defenders, a community-based public defense office serving low-income New Yorkers in the Bronx since 1997,[5] and the director of Still She Rises, Tulsa,[6] "the first public defender office in the nation dedicated exclusively to the representation of mothers in the criminal justice system".
According to Steinberg, the organization’s ultimate goal is “put ourselves out of business, having demonstrated that money and profit should have no role in criminal justice, and leaving behind a blueprint for how to support people during the pretrial process.”[16] The organization currently works with public defense offices and community partners in more than a dozen cities, posting bail for people in need and supporting them through court reminders, transportation assistance, and voluntary referrals to social services.
[21] Still She Rises brings the holistic model of public defense pioneered by The Bronx Defenders to low-income women in the North Tulsa community.
The Bronx Defenders now has a staff of over 300 attorneys, advocates, and social workers who represent more than 35,000 low-income [27] New Yorkers each year.