Bobbin Singh | Executive Director & Co-Founder
Bobbin Singh is the founding Executive Director of Oregon Justice Resource Center. He was born and raised in Atlanta, GA., and deeply inspired by the great figures of the civil rights movement in the South, often joking that as an Atlantan the first names he learned as a child were Dr. Martin Luther King, Andrew Young, Hosea Williams, and John Lewis.
Bobbin moved to Portland in 2003, studying for his Bachelor's at Portland State University and his JD at an Oregon law school. After graduating from law school in 2011, he started Oregon Justice Resource Center. Bobbin believes that mass incarceration, including over incarceration, mass conviction, and wrongful convictions, is in fact the greatest civil rights crisis of our time and we must all take ownership of it. He argues that for individual rights to have any meaning, we must protect them for everyone, without exception.
Bobbin manages OJRC, oversees staff, volunteers and all programs, and serves as our principal spokesperson. Working with our Board of Directors, he sets policy and direction for OJRC. He served on the Board of Directors for the ACLU of Oregon from 2011-2017 (holding a number of leadership positions, including serving on the Executive Committee) and the Oregon Council on Civil Rights, which produced a seminal report on juvenile justice that led to the passage to SB 1008 (historic juvenile justice reforms in 2019).