Careers at the Clean Slate Initiative

CSI’s Mission

The Clean Slate Initiative passes and implements laws that automatically clear eligible records for people who have completed their sentence and remained crime-free, and expands who is eligible for clearance. 

CSI’s Vision

People will no longer be defined by their records and will have the opportunity to contribute to their community, have a fair opportunity to work, get an education, and achieve their full potential.

About CSI

The Clean Slate Initiative has a small office in Orlando, Florida, where our Chief Executive Officer and several operations staff members are based — but most of our team works remotely, based all over the country. Not being tied to one location allows us to draw from a national talent pool and hire people who live in the many communities in which we work. Our entire staff gathers in Orlando four times a year to set priorities, collaborate, and build community.

Because we believe that everyone deserves a second chance, we value lived experience and hold ourselves accountable for hiring, promoting, and building the next generation of directly impacted leaders and leaders of color. 89% of our staff are directly impacted by having a personal experience with the criminal legal system ourselves or through a close family member or loved one. More than half of our staff are people of color.

The Clean Slate Initiative is rapidly growing. Any open positions are posted below, and we anticipate opening more roles in the future. If you don’t see an open position that fits your talents and interests now, please fill out our interest form at the bottom of this page, or check back here often for newly-opened positions.

Our Internal Values

Our values are rooted in the American Dream - the belief that if you work hard, you should be able to get ahead and provide for your family. Those values are seeped in our work culture, too.

• We lift up the whole person. This means we acknowledge, without judgment, people’s lives outside work, their pasts and their dreams for their future. We celebrate moments of happiness and pride and we honor moments of hardship and defeat. We intentionally uplift the experiences of our directly impacted and BIPOC colleagues.

• We don’t bring our egos to work. We come to work understanding that everyone is here because we believe in accomplishing real change for millions of people and to do that we must all work together. Our shared goals are more important than individual recognition or fame.

• We have a relentless drive to achieve our mission. We keep top of mind the people who need the relief Clean Slate legislation provides. These are our family, our friends, ourselves.  

• We are always learning and improving. We know our goals are ambitious and haven’t been achieved before. We observe our work and the work of others so that we can scale the best approaches. We practice taking a critical look at our work so we can move forward having learned from what we did previously and with the fresh perspective of new staff. 

• We demonstrate curiosity. When something is unfamiliar or different than we might expect, we ask, and encourage, questions to learn. We apply this to people and ideas. 

• We believe that time together builds relationships. We have hard conversations in person. We plan together. We spend informal time together, laughing and finding joy.

• We set meaningful goals and we each come to work every day with a clear understanding of what we will do  to move closer to our goals. We have practices that help us set these goals and share them across the organization. 

• We recognize our interdependence. We recognize that achieving the change we want to see requires all of our talents. We allocate time to identify how we share work across people and teams.