Nicholas E. Stewart

​Nicholas E. Stewart is Executive Director of the Justice Education Project, where he leads the organization’s research, strategy, and partnerships across policing, courts, incarceration, and emerging technologies. A criminology graduate of the University of South Florida, his work examines how artificial intelligence and digital systems are reshaping criminal legal processes, and how young people can intervene in that shift.

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He is the lead author of Next Steps into Criminal Justice Activism: Technology, Ethics, and the Future of Justice, a youth-written book on AI and the legal system featuring interviews with leading law faculty. Stewart has published peer-reviewed research in Psychological Services, and his work and commentary has appeared in The Hill and Teen Vogue. He speaks at universities, including the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and UC Berkeley, and has delivered briefings and workshops for organizations such as Human Rights Watch and the Sentencing Project.