Tony “Hashim” Windley serves as the Co-Director of LLAW. He brings a powerful combination of lived experience and academic excellence to the leadership team. Incarcerated for over two decades, Tony transformed his life through personal advocacy, education, earning a bachelor's degree from Bard College (2020) while still behind bars, and securing a scholarship to Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, where he acquired his MPH with a Certificate in History, Ethics, and Law (2025). He is a teacher, researcher, public speaker, and public health behavior change specialist. He designs, develops, and implements programs for organizations involved in behavior, institutional, legal, and cultural change. He has expertise in substance use disorder, community-based participatory research, curriculum development, program evaluation, cultural competence, trauma-informed care, and anti-violent approaches to problem solving.
Tony is the Founder and CEO of Mind-Body Sequences, Inc. and Brain-Body Sequences, LLC. His work includes serving as the contracted National Director of Second Chance University (SCU), founded by Andre Norman, co-host of the SCU Podcast alongside Andre Norman, and as a Field Responder for NYC’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Tony leads raw, impactful conversations about navigating adversity, shifting mindsets, and the journey from incarceration to purpose. He offers workshops around the country on community-based participatory research and assists in building collaborations between people with justice involvement and people working within and on the outside of the legal system. He works with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated persons to provide opportunities to learn the law.
Tony has extensive experience using the law as a vehicle for building the capacity of people affected by incarceration to transform their lives and contribute to their communities. His story is a living testament to the power of education and second chances, and the pivotal role that those closest to the challenges of the justice system must play in designing its solutions.