Ryan Ewing

Campaign Strategist

Ryan is a Campaign Strategist at The Clean Slate Initiative, working directly with state campaign partners to pass and implement Clean Slate policies.

Ryan is a long-time political organizer, spending the first decade of his career working for environmental causes, candidates and campaigns, building advocacy coalitions, and holding local elected office. After that, Ryan went back to school to earn his law degree and has been a practicing attorney for the past decade, serving as a public defender in multiple jurisdictions.

Through his law practice, Ryan has seen firsthand what conviction and arrest records can do to the long-term prospects and well-being of those caught up in the legal system. For that reason, he is thrilled to be resuming work as a political advocate, working on clearing records and providing a Clean Slate to people at the wholesale level, rather than through a burdensome case-by-case basis.

A native of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Ryan now lives in Eastern Carolina with his wife and three children.  He is a graduate of McDaniel College, The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, and University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.