Ken Oliver is the Vice President of Checkr.org and the Executive Director of the Checkr Foundation, Checkr’s philanthropic arm. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the CROP Organization, a reentry service provider based in Oakland, CA. In 2021, Ken led an effort to secure a historic $28.5M investment from the State of California to develop the first residential and tech-centered workforce development program for formerly incarcerated people in the country. After having spent 24 years himself in the labyrinth of California’s criminal justice system, more than 8 of which in solitary confinement, Ken emerged to become a certified paralegal and policy director for a public interest law firm.
