Scott is a civil rights attorney and Founder & Executive Director of Zealous, an award winning advocacy, media, and education initiative working to topple the historic imbalance of power over health and safety media, narratives, and policy. Zealous supports, organizes, and skills up public defenders, advocates, and people with direct experience to harness the power of media, technology, storytelling, and the arts to tell more compelling stories and work better together.

Zealous is an outgrowth of Scott’s work as a public defender and Director of Policy at Brooklyn Defender Services for nearly a decade, representing people charged with crimes who couldn’t afford an attorney and sharing defender perspective and expertise in a variety of media to shift the narrative and drive systemic change.

In addition to Zealous, Scott also co-founded the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund (now Envision Freedom Fund), as well as the Center for Just Journalism. He is an award-winning producer, director, and writer of advocacy films and digital experiences. Scott speaks widely, is an appointed Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School and University of San Francisco School of Law in addition now to University of Chicago Law School, advises companies, organizations, and philanthropies on media projects and strategies, and his work and commentaries are regularly featured in a range of major national and local outlets.

Scott lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.