10TH ANNUAL HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM SYMPOSIUM ON CRIME IN AMERICA

RACE JUSTICE AND

COMMUNITY: can we All Get Along?

CO-SPONSORED BY: PEW PUBLIC SAFETY PERFORMANCE PROJECT QUATTRONE CENTER FOR FAIR ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

FEBRUARY 9TH – 10TH 2015 524 W. 59TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 6:30 – 8:30 PM 11:00am – 12:30pm Agenda John Jay/HF Guggenheim PANEL 6 Pot Politics: THE Excellence in Criminal NEW MARIJUANA INDUSTRY Monday, FEBRUARY 9 1:30 – 3:00pm Justice Reporting Meg Collins, Executive Director, Cannabis Business L.61 Conference Room PANEL 3: Jails and the Awards Dinner Alliance, Colorado Mentally Ill: Ill Prepared 2015 Justice Ari Hoffnung, Founder, Fiorello Pharmaceuticals 8:00 – 8:30am and ill-Suited? Trailblazer Honoree: Beau Kilmer, Co-director of RAND Drug Policy Continental Breakfast Research Center Terri McDonald, Assistant Sheriff, Los Angeles Sheriff Department Maria Hinojosa Brian Vicente, Vicente-Sederberg LLC, Executive 8:30 – 10:30am Director, Sensible Colorado Bob McCabe, Sheriff, Norfolk County, Virginia PANEL 1: After Ferguson: Moderator: Ricardo Baca, Cannabis Editor, The Joe Ponte, New York City Department of Correction Lessons from a Tragedy Denver Post Cara Smith, Executive Director, Cook County Darryl Forte, Police Chief, Kansas City Missouri Department of Corrections 12:30 – 1:30pm Police Department Moderator: Martin Horn, Distinguished Lecturer, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 LUNCH David Kennedy, Director, Center for Crime John Jay College 9th Floor Conference Room For fellows and invited guests Prevention and Control, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 3:00 – 3:15 pm 7:45 – 8:15am 1:30 – 2:30pm Iris Roley, Community leader, Black United Front, BREAK Contintental Breakfast Story Lab Workshop 1: Cincinnati Understanding (and Sam Walker, Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice 3:15 – 4:45pm 8:15 – 9:00am Using) Justice Statistics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha PANEL 4: Re-Thinking KEYNOTE: For journalism fellows only Moderator: William Freivogel, Director of the Punishment Kenneth Thompson, District Attorney, Presenter: Bill Sabol, Director Bureau of School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University Kings County Justice Statistics Carbondale Part One: Sentencing and Public Facilitator: Stephen Handelman, Director, Center 9:00 – 9:15am on Media, Crime and Justice 10:30 – 10:45am Safety: the States’ Perspective BREAK BREAK Mark Earley, former Virginia Attorney General (R-VA) 2:30 – 2:45pm 9:15 – 10:45am 10:45am – 12:15pm Adam Gelb, The Pew Charitable Trusts BREAK PANEL 5: A Systems PANEL 2: CRIMINAL JUSTICE Michael Jacobson, Director, CUNY Institute for 2:45 – 3:45pm TRENDS & New Research State and Local Governance Approach to Mending Justice: Can Criminal Story Lab Workshop 2: Al Blumstein, Professor, Carnegie Mellon Nancy LaVigne, Director, Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute Justice Learn From Covering Gender & Crime Karin Martin, Assistant Professor, John Jay College Moderator: John Gramlich, The Pew Its Mistakes? Issues: Campus sex Rick Rosenfeld, Curators’ Professor, University of Charitable Trusts John Chisholm, District Attorney, Milwaukee Assaults Missouri at St. Louis County, Wisconsin For journalism fellows only Moderator: Stephen Handelman, Director, Center 4:45 – 5:00 pm John Hollway, Director, Quattrone Center for Fair Samantha Koch, Director of Strategic Initiatives, on Media Crime and Justice BREAK Administration of Justice Clery Center for Security on Campus David Krajicek, contributing editor, The Kristen Lombardi, Reporter, Center for 12:15 – 1:30 pm 5:00 – 6:15pm Crime Report Public Integrity Working LUNCH: DISCUSSION Part Two: Sentencing and Maureen McGough, Policy Advisor, National Facilitator: Cara Tabachnick, Deputy Director, OF YEAR in CRIME COVERAGE Public Safety: The Debate on Institute of Justice Center on Media, Crime and Justice For fellows and invited guests Risk-Based Assessment Gordon Schiff, Associate Professor of Medicine, President, Criminal Justice Journalists 3:45 – 5:30pm Ted Gest, Vice President of Criminal Justice, Harvard Medical School annual media crime coverage review Anne Milgram, Arnold Foundation FINAL WRAP Moderator: James Doyle, Attorney, Bassil, Klovee For journalism fellows only Sonja B. Starr, Professor of Law, University of Michigan & Budreau Facilitator: Joe Domanick, Assistant Director, Moderator: Eileen Sullivan, Reporter, Associated Press 10:45 – 11:00am Center on Media, Crime and Justice BREAK Director of the CMCJ and West Coast Bureau prominent Christian organization dedicated to Chief of The Crime Report. His latest book is ministry to prison inmates and their families. Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America’s Golden State. His previ- Darryl Forte ous book, To Protect and Serve: The LAPD’s Darryl Forte was appointed as the 44th Chief of Century of War in the City of Dreams, won the Kansas City Missouri Police Department the 1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best on October 13, 2011. He oversees a depart- Non-Fiction Book. Domanick has contributed ment that employs about 1,400 police officers, articles and essays to magazines and newspa- 600 non-sworn staff and serves nearly half pers across the U.S., including over 50 crim- a million residents across 319 square miles. inal-justice related op-ed pieces for the Los He is the first African-American Chief in the Angeles Times. From 1999-2012 he taught city’s history. Forte began his career with journalism at the School of Journalism at USC the Kansas City Missouri Police Department Annenberg’s School for Communication and in August 1985. Since that time, he has held continues to freelance. He is currently work- every rank on the department. His diverse ing on his latest book, Road to Reckoning: assignment history has included positions in The Collapse and Reformation of the LAPD, patrol, investigations, human resources and to be published by Simon & Schuster in the budgeting. Panelist Biographies Summer of 2015. Based in Los Angeles, CA, he served as a judge in this year’s John Jay/HF William H. Freivogel Guggenheim Awards for Excellence in Crimi- William H. Freivogel is a professor in the nal Justice Reporting. School of Journalism at Southern Illinois Uni- Ricardo Baca He was first elected Milwaukee County DA versity, publisher of the Gateway Journalism Ricardo Baca is the founder and editor of in 2006, and has been reelected by voters in James Doyle Review, and a contributor to St. Louis Pub- The Cannabist. After 12 years as The Denver 2008 and 2012. In that position, he expanded James Doyle practices law in Boston as coun- lic Radio. He worked for the St. Louis Post- Post’s music critic and a couple more as the his office’s Community Prosecution Program, sel to the firm of Bassil, Klovee & Budreau, Dispatch for 34 years, where his assignments paper’s entertainment editor, he was tapped placing prosecutors in all Milwaukee Police concentrating on defending indigent defen- included assistant Washington Bureau Chief, to become The Post’s first-ever marijuana Department Districts. He designed a Child dants in homicide cases, crime victims’ com- Supreme Court reporter and deputy editorial editor. He created The Cannabist in late 2013. Protection Advocacy Unit, formed a Public pensation, and civil rights cases. A veteran editor. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Baca also founded music blog Reverb and Integrity Unit, and created a Witness Protec- litigator and writer, he is the former head of in 2002, for his editorials about civil liberties co-founded the Colorado music festival, The tion Unit to combat crime victim and witness the statewide Public Defender Division of abuses. Freivogel’s honors include: the Sigma UMS. intimidation. He received a BA in English the Committee for Public Counsel Services Delta Chi Distinguished Service Medal, the Literature from Marquette University and his in Massachusetts, and the author of True Wit- ABA Silver Gavel and the Benjamin Franklin Alfred Blumstein law degree at the University of Wisconsin ness, (2005) the history of the collision be- awards for stories on the Constitution. He also Prof. Blumstein is the J. Erik Jonsson Uni- Law School. tween the science of memory and the legal won the IRE, Sidney Hillman and Washington versity of Urban Systems and Operations system; and the co-author (with Elizabeth Correspondence awards. He graduated from Research Professor of Heinz College of Carf- Meg Collins Loftus) of Eyewitness Testimony: Civil and Stanford University and Washington Univer- negie Mellon University. His research over Meg Collins is the Executive Director of the Criminal, a treatise for lawyers in eyewitness sity Law School. the past 20 years has covered many aspects Cannabis Business Alliance (CBA). As Exec- cases. He was the founding Director of The of criminal justice phenomena and policy, in- utive Director, Collins steers the organization Center For Modern Forensic Practice at the Adam Gelb cluding crime measurement, criminal careers, through the development of the legislative and John Jay College of Criminal Justice and its Adam Gelb is director of the Pew Charitable sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation, regulatory framework implementing Colora- Arson Screening Project. During 2012-2014 Trust’s Public Safety Performance Project, prison populations, demographic trends, ju- do’s recreational marijuana market envisioned he was a Visiting Fellow at the National Insti- which helps states advance policies and prac- venile violence and drug-enforcement. A past by the voters’ passage of Amendment 64. She tute of Justice, where he devised and helped to tices in adult and juvenile sentencing and cor- president of the American Society of Crimi- is a public policy and strategic communica- launch NIJ’s Sentinel Events Initiative. rections that protect public safety, hold offend- nology, he was also director of the National tions authority who has led lobbying, public ers accountable, and control corrections costs. Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR), affairs and public relations efforts on behalf of Mark Earley Gelb has been involved in crime control and a multi-university initiative funded by the Na- energy, environmental and agriculture clients Mark Earley served as Attorney General of prevention issues for the past 25 years as a tional Science Foundation and headquartered at the federal and state level. Prior to CBA, Virginia from 1998 to 2001. A member of journalist, congressional aide and senior state at the Heinz College. she was President of the Colorado Oil & Gas the Republican Party, he served in the Vir- government official. He began his career as a Association. A native Coloradan, she is a ginia State Senate (1988–1998). In 2001, reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John T. Chisholm long-time resident of Boulder. he resigned as Attorney General to focus on and staffed the U.S. Senate Judiciary Com- John T. Chisholm is the District Attorney the 2001 campaign for Governor of Virginia, mittee during negotiations and final passage of Milwaukee County. He began his career Joe Domanick which he lost to businessman and Democratic of the Violent Crime Control and Law En- as an assistant district attorney in 1994, later Joe Domanick is an award-winning investi- Party leader Mark Warner. From 2002 to 2011, forcement Act of 1994. From 1995-2000, as heading that office’s firearm prosecution unit. gative journalist and author. He is Associate Earley was president of Prison Fellowship, a policy director for the lieutenant governor of Maryland, Gelb was instrumental in develop- on criminal justice. He also serves as host munity based supervision demonstrated to 2010 to 2012, Jacobson served as the chair of ing several nationally recognized anti-crime of “Criminal Justice Matters,” a monthly obtain better outcomes. He was a member Altus – a global alliance working across con- initiatives. He served as executive director TV show at CUNY-TV; and as consulting of then-Governor Tom Ridge’s Senior Staff tinents and from a multicultural perspective to of the Georgia Sentencing Commission from managing editor of Americas Quarterly, a as Secretary of Administration for the State improve public safety and justice. He earned 2001 to 2003. Before joining Pew, he was vice journal on hemisphere affairs. An award- of Pennsylvania, as Pennsylvania’s Secre- his PhD in sociology from the CUNY Gradu- president for programs at the Georgia Council winning veteran journalist, columnist and tary of Corrections (1995-2000), and as ex- ate Center. on Substance Abuse. Gelb graduated from the foreign correspondent with over 30 years’ ecutive director and chief operating officer University of Virginia, and holds a master’s experience in reporting and editing (most for the New York State Division of Parole. David M. Kennedy degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy recently TIME Magazine), he has been a Horn began his career as a New York State David M. Kennedy is director of the National School of Government. consultant to U.S. law enforcement agen- Parole Officer in 1969, and went on to be- Network for Safe Communities at John Jay cies and the United Nations, and has lec- come assistant commissioner of corrections College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Ted Gest tured and taught at universities around the for New York State and Superintendent of His work focuses on reducing violence, mini- Since 1998, Ted Gest has been president of U.S. His book, Comrade Criminal: Russia’s Hudson Correctional Facility. He earned mizing arrest and incarceration, and strength- Criminal Justice Journalists, a national orga- New Mafiya (Yale: 1995) was on The New a bachelor’s degree in government from ening relationships between law enforcement nization of reporters, writers, and broadcasters York Times Notable Books of the Year list. Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, and distressed communities. He developed who cover criminal justice. He is Washington His most recent book is How They Got Pennsylvania in 1969, and a master’s degree the Group Violence Intervention strategy, DC bureau chief of The Crime Report, and au- Away With It: White-Collar Criminals and in criminal justice from John Jay College. first implemented as “Operation Ceasefire” thor of Crime and Politics: Big Government’s the Financial Meltdown, (Columbia Uni- in Boston, which is a proven model for re- Erratic Campaign for Law and Order (2001), a versity Press: 2012). He earned his Masters Ari Hoffnung ducing homicide, and has been used to ad- book on anticrime policy in the U.S. since the in Public Administration from the John F. Ari Hoffnung is the Founder & CEO of dress drug markets, domestic violence and late 1960s. Gest was a writer and editor at U.S. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Fiorello Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He is a fifth- other public safety issues. He has won two News & World Report from 1977 to 2000. Af- University, and a BA in English and Phi- generation New Yorker with two decades of Ford Foundation Innovations in Government ter covering the Carter White House, he was losophy from the City College of New York experience on Wall Street and in City Hall. awards, among many other distinctions. His the magazine’s chief legal affairs writer for (CUNY). Hoffnung previously served as New York latest book is Don’t Shoot, One Man, a Street 15 years, covering the Justice Department, the City’s Deputy Comptroller for Budget & Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner- Supreme Court, and crime and justice issues John F. Hollway Public Affairs, where he oversaw the City’s City America . nationally. After 1996, he served as national John F. Hollway is Associate Dean and Ex- $70 billion budget and led a research team news editor and as a writer on law schools ecutive Director of the Quattrone Center composed of economists and policy experts Samantha Koch and other education issues. Before joining for the Fair Administration of Justice at the that published two ground-breaking and Samantha Koch is the Director of Strategic U.S. News, Gest was a reporter and editor at University of Pennsylvania Law School. widely-cited reports on the public-health Initiatives for the Clery Center, focusing on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is a graduate The Quattrone Center is a national research and economic impacts of reforming can- partnerships, member services, and organi- of Oberlin College and the Graduate School and policy hub created to catalyze long term nabis policies: 100,000 Reasons: Medical zational strategy. In this role, Samantha leads of Journalism at Columbia University, and structural improvements to the US criminal Marijuana In The Big Apple; and Regulat- the Collaborative Program, and also presents served as a judge in this year’s John Jay/HF justice system. Hollway is the author of Kill- ing and Taxing Marijuana: The Fiscal Im- nationally on campus safety issues and Clery Guggenheim Awards for Excellence in Crimi- ing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death pact on NYC. Act compliance. Prior to her work at the Clery nal Justice Reporting. Row to Freedom, which covered the case of Center, Koch served as a Member Services & John Thompson, a Louisiana Death Row in- Michael Jacobson Outreach Associate at The Investment Fund John Gramlich mate who was exonerated and freed after 18 Michael Jacobson joined the City University for Foundations, a cooperative-style invest- John is a research officer at The Pew Chari- years in prison. Hollway graduated from the of New York (CUNY) in May 2013 to help ment firm serving endowed nonprofit organi- table Trusts, where he develops and edits University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and re- create the Institute for State and Local Gov- zations. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Saint national publications about the U.S. prison ceived his JD with honors from the George ernment. Prior to this he was president of the Joseph’s University, where she earned her system. He previously worked as a legal af- Washington University Law School. Vera Institute of Justice (2005-2013). He is degree in Political Science, Koch’s student fairs reporter with CQ Roll Call, a Capitol the author of Downsizing Prisons: How to journalism was recognized by the Pennsylva- Hill publication, and with Stateline, an online Martin Horn Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration nia Newspaper Association for her coverage news service covering policy trends in the 50 Martin Horn joined the John Jay faculty in (New York University Press 2005). Holding a of campus crime, Koch is pleased to use her state capitols. Earlier, he worked as a news the fall of 2009 as Distinguished Lecturer in PhD in sociology, he has had an ongoing aca- experiences and passion to advance the Clery producer with The Baltimore Sun and as a the Department of Law & Police Science. demic career coupled with more than 20 years Center’s mission of making campuses safe reporter with The Express-Times in his home Currently, executive director of the New of government service. From 1998 to 2005 he and healthy. town of Easton, Pa. York State Sentencing Commission, he was a professor at John Jay College of Crimi- served as Commissioner of the New York nal Justice and the Graduate Center of CUNY. David J. Krajicek Stephen Handelman City Department of Correction and Depart- He was New York City Correction Commis- David J. Krajicek is an author, journalist and Stephen Handelman is Director of the Cen- ment of Probation from 2003 to 2009. As a sioner from 1995 to 1998; New York City former Columbia University professor whose ter on Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ) at result of his leadership, the City dramatical- Probation Commissioner from 1992 to 1996; work focuses on justice, history and the me- John Jay College, and Executive Editor of ly changed the way the family court system and worked in the New York City Office of dia. He is cofounder of Criminal Justice Jour- The Crime Report, the nation’s most com- responds to juvenile delinquents, replacing Management and Budget from 1984 to 1992, nalists and a contributing editor with The prehensive daily news and resource service destructive institutionalization with com- where he was a Deputy Budget Director. In Crime Report. He writes “The Justice Story” for the New York Daily News. His books in- oversaw hundreds of prosecutors and approxi- working as an Officer, Sergeant, Lieutenant, reporter at the Village Voice, where she pro- clude Scooped, a critical analysis of how the mately 30,000 law enforcement officers, and Captain, including Captain at Folsom State vided groundbreaking coverage of the 9/11 media covers crime. He has written for the implemented a statewide program to improve Prison, Associate Warden, Chief Deputy War- health crisis. Her investigative reports as a New York Times, Boston Magazine, Salon, public safety through prevention of crime, law den, Division Chief, Chief Deputy Secretary staff writer for the Boston Phoenix were wide- Village Voice and the Guardian, among many enforcement reform, and re-entry initiatives. and Undersecretary. Prior to her employment ly credited with helping to expose the clergy others. He was a 2014 fellow with the Fund Milgram also served as a member of the U.S. with CDCR, McDonald oversaw the juvenile sexual-abuse scandal in that city. Her work for for Investigative Journalism. A native Nebras- Attorney General’s Executive Working Group justice, gang and fugitive apprehension units the Center has been honored by the Investiga- kan, he lives in New York and Alabama. on Criminal Justice and as a co-chair of the in California’s state prisons. McDonald holds tive Reporters and Editors, the National Press National Association of Attorneys General a Bachelor of Science Degree in Leadership Foundation, the Association of Health Care Beau Kilmer Criminal Law Committee. Prior to becoming in Law Enforcement, graduating with Hon- Journalists, the John B. Oakes Environmental Dr. Beau Kilmer is co-director of the RAND New Jersey Attorney General, she served as ors, from the University of San Francisco. Prize, and the Society of Environmental Jour- Drug Policy Research Center. Some of his First Assistant Attorney General and, before nalists. She was a Nieman Fellow in Journal- current projects include estimating the size of that, was Counsel to a United States Senator. Maureen McGough ism at Harvard University(2011-2012). Lom- illegal drug markets and evaluating innovative In 2004, she became the leading federal pros- Maureen McGough is an attorney and policy bardi graduated with high honors from the programs intended to reduce crime and vio- ecutor in the country for human trafficking advisor in the National Institute of Justice’s University of California at Berkeley, and has lence. Dr. Kilmer’s research has appeared in crimes. Milgram graduated summa cum laude (NIJ) Office of the Director. She also serves on a master’s degree in journalism from Boston leading journals such as Addiction, American from Rutgers and holds a masters of philoso- the NIJ Sentinel Event Initiative team, man- University. Journal of Public Health, Proceedings of the phy degree in social and political theory from ages the agency’s human trafficking research National Academy of Sciences, and his com- the University of Cambridge in England, as portfolio, and co-leads a partnership with the Joseph Ponte mentaries have been published by CNN, Los well as a law degree from New York Univer- State Department to enhance the capabilities Joseph Ponte is Commissioner of New York Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street sity School of Law. In addition to her work of the Kenyan Wildlife Service. She joined City’s Department of Correction. In his 40- Journal, USA Today, and other outlets. His with the Arnold Foundation, she serves as a the federal government as a Presidential Man- year corrections career, Commissioner Ponte co-authored book on marijuana legalization Senior Fellow at the NYU Law School Center agement Fellow, where she oversaw federal has earned a national reputation as a success- was published by Oxford University Press and on the Administration of Criminal Law, and AIDS relief efforts at the U.S. Embassy in ful reformer. Prior to his appointment, he the second edition will be released in 2016. is a member of the Covenant House Interna- Kigali, Rwanda and served as a Special Assis- served as Commissioner of the Maine De- tional Board of Directors. tant U.S. Attorney for the District of Colum- partment of Corrections since 2011, where Karin Martin bia. She received her J.D. from the George he instituted substantial reforms impacting Karin Martin, PhD, is an Assistant Professor Robert McCabe Washington University Law School. the management of the correctional system in John Jay’s Department of Public Manage- Robert McCabe was elected as Norfolk, Vir- there. He has also served as director of the ment. She studied Psychology at Stanford ginia’s Sheriff in 1993. He has over 33 years Nancy La Vigne jail in Shelby County, Tennessee (which in- University and worked in a variety of non- of law enforcement and corrections experi- Nancy G. La Vigne is director of the Justice cludes Memphis), where he led one of the profit organizations in the San Francisco Bay ence. Currently serving his sixth term in of- Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Wash., largest jails in the country –and eventually Area before attending University of Califor- fice, McCabe is responsible for the largest DC, where she leads a staff of over three doz- led the jail successfully through accreditation nia, Berkeley where she earned an MPP, an local corrections program in Virginia, which en researchers and oversees a research port- by the American Correctional Association. MA in Political Science, and a PhD in Public employs nearly 500 personnel and oversees a folio spanning a wide array of crime, justice, A native of Massachusetts, Ponte has served Policy. She was a post-doctoral scholar in the $36 million budget. He is a U.S. Navy vet- and public safety topics, including prisoner as a warden in jails and prisons in Nevada, Psychology Department at UCLA where she eran, former corrections officer, and police of- reentry, policing, criminal justice reform, and Florida, Tennessee, New Jersey, Rhode Island was also a Fellow with the Consortium for ficer. McCabe earned a degree in Criminology the evaluation of criminal justice technolo- and Massachusetts. A Marine Corps veteran Policing Equity. She has been a Fellow at the from St. Leo University and a Masters of Pub- gies. La Vigne holds a B.A. in Government (1965-1969), he holds a bachelor’s degree in Center for Research on Social Change at UC lic Administration from Troy University. Mc- from Smith College, a Master’s Degree in political science from Bridgewater State College. Berkeley, a Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Cabe also serves as adjunct professor at Old Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Fellow, and a National Science Foundation- Dominion University and Tidewater Commu- Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin, and Iris Roley funded Fellow in the Integrated Graduate nity College. a Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at Iris Roley, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio and Education Research and Training (IGERT) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. a freedom advocate for 14 years, designed Program in Politics, Economics, Psychology, Terri McDonald and monitored Cincinnati Police Department and Public Policy. Martin was a RAND Sum- Terri McDonald, a 24-year veteran of the Kristen Lombardi (CPD) reform. The wrongful death of two mer Associate in 2009. California Department of Corrections and Re- Kristen Lombardi is an award-winning jour- unarmed black men by the CPD in Novem- habilitation (CDCR), was recently appointed nalist who has worked for the Center for ber of 2001 compelled the Cincinnati Black Anne Milgram to the position of Assistant Sheriff by Sheriff Public Integrity since 2007. She has been a United Front (CBUF) to address the 14th Anne Milgram is the Vice President of Crimi- Lee Baca and will oversee the Custody Di- journalist for more than 19 years. Her inves- and 15th killings in a five year period. She nal Justice for the Laura and John Arnold vision of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s tigation into campus rape cases for the Cen- became Project Manager for the CBUF in Foundation. Prior to joining Foundation, Mil- Department. She began her career in law en- ter won the Robert F. Kennedy Award and 2001, helping to produce a document show- gram served as New Jersey’s Attorney Gen- forcement in 1988 as a Correctional Officer the Dart Award in 2011, as well as the Sigma ing over 400 incidents of police brutality and eral, where she headed the 9,000-person De- with the California Department of Corrections Delta Chi Award for Public Service in 2010, misconduct—which was the catalyst used to partment of Law and Public Safety. As New and Rehabilitation, and literally worked her among other recognitions. More recently, file a class action federal lawsuit against the Jersey’s chief law enforcement officer, she way up through the ranks of the Department, Lombardi was a staff writer and investigative city of Cincinnati and its police department. vulnerable populations, such as those suffer- pharmacy linkages, health IT, and medication Precinct stationhouse in Brooklyn in 1997. Roley worked for the ACLU of Ohio from ing from mental illness and those charged quality improvement. He is a member of edi- He served as a Special Assistant to the U.S. 2007-2009 as a community organizer, where with crimes of survival.Prior to joining the torial boards of Medical Care, Journal of Pub- Treasury Department Undersecretary for En- her duties included monitoring compliance Cook County Sheriff’s Office in 2012, Di- lic Health Policy and BMJ Quality and Safety. forcement, and to the department’s General and public awareness of the Citizens Com- rector Smith served as an Assistant Attorney Counsel’s Office and was on the team of law- plaint Authority. Roley sits on the external ad- General, Deputy Chief of Staff and Public Ac- Eileen Sullivan yers and federal agents that investigated the visory committee of the Police Chief, the City cess Counselor for Illinois Attorney General Eileen Sullivan is an investigative reporter for fatal raid on the Branch Davidian Compound Manager, the board of the Community Police Lisa Madigan and also served as legal counsel The Associated Press, covering law enforce- in Waco, Texas, in 1993. Thompson graduat- Partnering Center, and the Cincinnati Human and Chief of Staff to the Illinois Department ment, corrections and national security issues. ed magna cum laude from John Jay College of Relations Committee. Her numerous awards of Corrections. Director Smith received her Previously, she covered counterterrorism, the Criminal Justice, and earned his law degree at include: the Cincinnati Branch-NAACP law degree in 1992 from Loyola University Department of Homeland Security for the AP New York University Law School, where he Wright-Overstreet Memorial Award; the 2011 School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. and for Congressional Quarterly and Federal was awarded the prestigious Arthur T. Vander- Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Ac- Times. In 2012, Sullivan and three other AP bilt Medal for his outstanding contributions to tion Agency, Bridge Builder Award;Service Sonia B. Starr reporters won the Pulitzer, Goldsmith and the law school community. Coordinator of the year award from Public Sonja Starr joined the faculty at the Univer- Polk awards for a series of stories that re- Housing Residents, 2012; and the Cincinnati sity of Michigan Law School in fall 2009. vealed the New York Police Department’s se- Brian Vicente Herald Nefertiti Award for exceptional com- Her research interests include prosecutorial cret programs to spy on Muslims throughout Brian Vicente is a partner and founding mem- munity service. conduct, sentencing law and policy, remedies the Northeast since Sept. 11, 2001. Sullivan ber of Vicente Sederberg, LLC, the country’s for violations of criminal defendants’ rights, began her career with the Courier-Post in most recognized marijuana law firm. He Richard Rosenfeld and re-entry of ex-offenders. Before coming Cherry Hill, N.J. She graduated from Villa- served as the co-director of the Amendment Richard Rosenfeld is Founders Professor to Michigan Law, Prof. Starr taught at the nova University. 64 campaign and was one of the primary of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland School of Law and authors of this historic measure, which re- University of Missouri - St. Louis. His re- spent two years at Harvard Law School as a Cara Tabachnick sulted in Colorado becoming the first state in search focuses on crime trends, crime statis- Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law. Starr For the past decade Cara Tabachnick has been the nation – and the first geographic area in tics and policing. Dr. Rosenfeld is a Fellow has clerked for the Hon. Merrick Garland of reporting and writing about the American the world – to make the possession, use, and and past President of the American Society of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit criminal justice system. She is the deputy di- regulated distribution of marijuana legal for Criminology. He currently serves on the Sci- and for the Hon. Mohamed Shahabuddeen rector of the Center on Media, Crime and Jus- adults. Vicente also serves as executive direc- ence Advisory Board of the Office of Justice of the shared Appeals Chamber of the Inter- tice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, tor of Sensible Colorado, the state’s leading Programs, US Department of Justice, and is national Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and where she trains journalists across the country non-profit working for medical marijuana pa- Principal Investigator of the St. Louis Public the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Between to report on the criminal justice system, as tients and providers. Safety Partnership. these clerkships, she was an associate with well as edits the daily news service The Crime Goldstein & Howe, PC, in Washington, D.C., Report. She has written widely on these issues Samuel Walker William J. Sabol, Ph.D. a firm specializing in U.S. Supreme Court for publications such as The Christian Science Samuel Walker is Professor Emeritus of William Sabol currently serves as Director litigation. She Starr earned her JD from Yale Monitor, The Washington Post magazine, The Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska for the Bureau of Justice Statistics. He has Law School, where she served as senior edi- Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Scien- at Omaha. His principal area of expertise in- more than 25 years of research experience on tor of theYale Law Journal and was awarded tific American Mind. volves police accountability. He is the author criminal justice and sentencing policy, formal the American Bar Association’s annual Ross of 14 books on policing, civil liberties, and and informal social control in communities, Student Writing Prize. She received her AB Kenneth Thompson crime policy. His most recent book is The disparities in criminal justice outcomes, and from Harvard, summa cum laude, and is also Ken Thompson was sworn in as Brooklyn New World of Police Accountability, 2nd ed. statistical methods. He served in various ca- an alumna of the Inter-University Consortium District Attorney on January 1, 2014. Since (with Carol Archbold, 2014). He is also the pacities at the Government Accountability Of- for Political and Social Research Summer his election, the work of his newly-formed author of Sense and Nonsense About Crime, fice, Case Western Reserve University, the Ur- Program in Quantitative Methods. Conviction Review Unit has seen ten wrong- Drugs, and Communities, 8th ed. (2015), and ban Institute, and the University of Maryland. ful convictions vacated. The newly formed The Police in America, 8th ed. (with Charles Prior to completing his Ph.D. in 1988 from the Gordon Schiff Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau, which M. Katz, 2013). Last month, Walker testified Graduate School of Public and International Gordon Schiff MD is a general internist and was introduced in early October, is designed at at the initial hearings of the President’s Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, he was Associate Director of Brigham and Women’s to combat drug organizations and gangs who Task Force on 21st Century Policing. He also a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Crimi- Center for Patient Safety Research and Prac- use gun violence to further their goals. Within served in 2013 served as an expert witness for nology at Cambridge University. tice, and Associate Professor of Medicine at days of its inception, the VCE Bureau disman- the plaintiffs in the New York City stop and Harvard Medical School. He also serves as tled a major narcotics operation at the Tilden frisk trial (Floyd v. New York City), and he has Cara Smith Safety Director for the Harvard Center for Houses in Brownsville. Prior to his election, been a consultant to the Civil Rights Divi- Cara Smith is Executive Director of the Cook Primary Care Academic Improvement Col- Thompson served as a former Assistant U.S. sion of the U.S. Department of Justice in its County Department of Corrections, one of the laborative. Dr. Schiff worked for three de- Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, investigations of the New Jersey State Police largest single-site jails in the country. Execu- cades at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, where he was a member of the team that suc- and the Metropolitan Police Department of tive Director Smith is also responsible for de- where he directed the general medicine clinic. cessfully prosecuted former New York City Washington, DC. veloping and executing strategies that impact He is author of numerous articles on patient Police Officer Justin Volpe in the brutal beat- the jail’s population with an emphasis on its safety, diagnostic error, test management, lab- ing and sodomy of Abner Louima in the 70th John Jay/ H.F. Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Awards

BEST SinglE SToRy 2015 John Jay / H.F. Guggenheim Judges: Winner: “Before the Law” Rossana Rosado gan worked for The Pittsburgh Press, and The The Publisher and CEO since 1999 of El Dia- (Allentown) Morning Call, and the Chicago Jennifer Gonnerman rio La Prensa, the nation’s oldest Spanish-lan- Tribune. She is the recipient of numerous state The New Yorker guage newspaper, Rossana Rosado is a veter- and national honors and was a 2006 fi nalist an of 25 years in New York media. An Emmy- for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative report- Runner-up: and Peabody Award-winning journalist, Ro- ing. O’Matz won the 2013-2014 John Jay/HF sado has also worked for WPIX, WCBS-AM Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Crimi- “The Great American and FM radio, and WNYC-TV 31. For three nal Justice Reporting in the Series category. Chain Gang” years she was Vice President for Public Af- fairs of the New York City Health and Hospi- Alexa Capeloto Beth Schwartzapfel tals Corporation, serving in both the Dinkins Alexa Capeloto is Assistant Professor of Jour- The American Prospect and Giuliani administrations. Prior to becom- nalism, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. ing El Diario La Prensa’s Publisher, Rosado Capeloto was a reporter and editor at the De- was the newspaper’s Editor in Chief, the fi rst troit Free Press until joining the San Diego BEST SERiES 2015 woman to hold that position. She maintains Union-Tribune as East County bureau chief in active affi liations with many of New York’s 2005. In 2007, she was named the paper’s en- Winner: nonprofi t organizations, including the United terprise editor, overseeing explanatory, trend “Till Death Do Us Part” Way of New York City, the Community Ser- and other enterprise stories. Before arriving at vice Society of New York and the New York John Jay in 2009, she was an adjunct instruc- The Post and Courier investigative team: Women’s Foundation, and is a member of the tor of journalism at National University, a Doug Pardue, Jennifer Berry Hawkes, Advisory Board of the City University Gradu- San Diego-based college aimed at mid-career Natalie Cauyla Hauff, Glenn Smith ate School in Journalism. students. Capeloto, who earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia Univer- Co-Runner-up: Megan O’Matz sity in 2000, also serves as faculty adviser for Megan O’Matz is part of a team of investi- John Jay’s student newspaper, The John Jay “Hard Look at Hard Time” gative reporters for the Sun Sentinel. She and Sentinel. The Clarion-Ledger investigative team: her colleagues have exposed widespread fraud in FEMA’s disaster aid program, mismanage- Joe Domanick Jerry Mitchell, Jackie Mader, Sarah Butrymowicz, ment and loopholes in Florida’s gun licensing (SEE BIO IN SPEAKERS LIST) Kate Royals, Monica Land system, and ethical breaches in the gover- nor’s use of private jets provided by wealthy Ted Gest Co-Runner-up: businessmen. She’s written extensively about (SEE BIO IN SPEAKERS LIST) corruption in school construction, deadly in- “Force at the Border” competence in Florida’s child welfare agency, Arizona Republic and housing woes caused by the foreclosure Bob Ortega, Rob O’Dell crisis. Prior to joining the Sun Sentinel, Me- Institute’s Minority Writers Editorial time finalist for the National Magazine Award Conference, and recipient of the Four and recipient of a grant from The Investigative Freedoms Fund Immigration Fellowship. She Fund, his work has been included in the earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism anthology Best American Magazine Writing. from Temple University and Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Lesley Katie Kuntz University. She is an adjunct professor of Katie Kuntz is an investigative reporter with English and contributor to New America Rocky Mountain PBS I-News in Denver. Her Media, EBONY.com, The Florida Times- multi-platform reporting skills include radio, Union, ARBUS, Orlando Arts Magazine, and television, documentary filmmaking, and the Florida Courier. newspaper reporting. Katie’s work has been featured regionally in dozens of news outlets Raheem Hosseini and nationally in USA Today and on the PBS Raheem Hosseini is a staff writer for the NewsHour website. Her award-winning Sacramento News & Review, and reports on report, “Breaking the Cycle: Meth Addiction H.F. Guggenheim criminal justice issues and underrepresented in Council Bluffs,” became a 30-minute communities in the Sacramento region. He documentary as part of her work with the worked as a print and online journalist and Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism and Fellows Biographies editor in the Bay Area and northern California Iowa Public Television. It was scheduled to since 2004. Earlier this year, he was selected air Jan. 5, 2015. by the California Endowment for a week- long health reporting fellowship at the USC Dara Lind Carlos Aviles Maria Cramer Annenberg School of Communications & Dara Lind is a staff writer for Vox.com, where Carlos Aviles has been a reporter at La For 11 years, Maria Cramer has worked at the Journalism. His recently published project she covers immigration and criminal justice. Opinión, the leading Spanish language paper Boston Globe, where she has broken news concerned the rising rates of mentally ill Her mission is to make complex policies and in California, since 2011. Many of his stories on some of the biggest stories in the city. As youth in California’s juvenile halls. He won ideas legible to the everyday reader — even have focused on how crime impacts Latino the Globe’s police reporter, she covered the the award for best investigative reporting in cases where it’s hard to tell a story through neighborhoods in Los Angeles and other Craigslist Killer and Clark Rockefeller, as from the California Newspaper Publishers the eyes of one affected individual — by cities. He has worked for Hoy Publications, well as some of the most brutal homicides in Association for an April 4, 2013, feature on telling compelling stories where the structure a Spanish language newspaper from the Los Boston in recent history. The Globe has sent California’s prison realignment plan and how is the protagonist. In Vox’s first nine months Angeles Times Media Group, and The Press her to Guatemala, Costa Rica, London and state allocations were misspent locally; and of existence, her work has followed the Enterprise / La Prensa in Riverside, covering Germany to follow not only crime stories was also part of the writing team that placed Central American migrant crisis of summer the stories of the Latino community in the but hot political news. One example is the second in that category for a cover story on 2014; the legal standards about when police region known as the Inland Empire. Born in successful search for undocumented workers emergency room care. can use lethal force; and the effect of the El Salvador, Aviles worked as correspondent hired by Mitt Romney at the same time he was Obama administration’s shifting priorities in Los Angeles for La Prensa Grafica, the condemning illegal immigration during his Mike Kessler for deporting unauthorized immigrants, largest Central America newspaper. presidential run. In 2013, she was part of the Mike Kessler specializes in longform among many other topics. Prior to joining team that won the Pulitzer for coverage of the magazine writing. He is a writer-at-large for Vox, she worked in immigration advocacy, Bethany Barnes Boston Marathon bombings. In 2014, she was Los Angeles magazine, where he covers crime bringing more transparency to immigration Bethany Barnes is a reporter at the Las Vegas assigned to cover the state’s court system and and other public-interest issues. His work has enforcement policy by explaining it to Review-Journal, where she covers the city of in January will cover the Aaron Hernandez appeared in Backpacker, Details, Esquire.com, the public, and conducting historical and North Las Vegas while pursuing investigative trial. She lives in Boston with her husband and GQ, Inc., Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, demographic research to put current debates projects. She has been reporting in Las Vegas two-year-old son, Gabriel. Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, Mountain in context. since June 2013, writing about an inmate who Magazine, New York, The New York Times costs taxpayers more than $400,000 a year Penny Dickerson Magazine, Outside, Salon.com, TakePart. Chelsea McDougall in medical expenses, a police-run abstinence Penny Dickerson is a Florida-based freelance com, Wired, Denver’s 5280, and others. Best Chelsea McDougall has been delving into class intended to equate premarital sex with journalist whose literary approach to news known for turning complicated crime and criminal justice issues for the Northwest death and, most recently, a plagiarism scandal produces engaging narratives across a broad public-interest stories and into compelling Herald, a daily newspaper in suburban in the agency that oversees higher education in spectrum. Underrepresented populations are narratives, Kessler has written about missing Chicago for the past two years. She is a the state. Before moving to Nevada, Bethany the cornerstone of her pursuits and include persons, law enforcement, nuclear-weapons 2014 Fellow with the Institute for Justice & covered the Arizona Legislature as the 2013 Steve Harvey and Essence Magazine’s workers, immigration/border policy, mountain Journalism. Prior to reporting on criminal Don Bolles Fellow. Barnes has a B.A. in Dreamers Academy, Kongo Across the lions, drug policy, prisoner realignment, justice issues, McDougall was a municipal creative writing and a master’s in journalism Water, The Kinsey Collection and rare online privacy, mental and physical health, and general assignment reporter covering from the University of Arizona. celebrity interviews with Frankie Beverly business, philanthropy, marijuana farming, the gamut of local news and politics. She is and Sonia Sanchez. A graduate of Leadership adventure travel, and a range of people who a five-time Associated Press award winner, Jacksonville, the Freedom Forum Diversity do, or have done, interesting things. A two- and multiple recipient of awards from the Illinois Press Association’s Excellence in online information-gathering tools than he has written extensively about justice, crime news contest. She has a bachelor’s degree in can list, but he is also comfortable scouring and social services for more than five years. journalism from Western Illinois University. criminal, civil and appellate court systems Her work has been published by USA Today in federal, state, county, and municipal and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, among Carla Murphy courthouses nationwide. others. In 2009, she was awarded first place Carla Murphy is a contributing editor at The in the large circulation division for short form Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute Danielle Tcholakian newswriting by the Association of Alternative and a staff reporter at Colorlines, where she Danielle Tcholakian is local news reporter Newsweeklies. Walton is also cited in covers low-wage labor organizing, criminal at DNAinfo.com, based in New York City, Hillary Clinton’s book, “It Takes a Village.” justice issues, and more. She previously was with extensive experience covering criminal Additionally, Walton has worked in the social a producer on BrianLehrer.Tv, a spinoff of justice, the NYPD and politics at the state, service and nonprofit sector, giving her a WNYC’s popular Brian Lehrer Show; deputy city and local level. She’s well-sourced within unique perspective on social justice. Walton research editor at Glamour; and editorial as- the NYPD and has a good deal of insight holds a master’s degree from the Department sistant at O, The Oprah Magazine. Her report- into the day-to-day of officers on the ground, of Political Science at Western Michigan ing has appeared in the Columbia Journalism both in terms of their lived experience and University, where she studied international Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the their perceptions of their position within the development. Her research focused on American Prospect, Glamour, O, The Oprah communities they police and their institution poverty alleviation and the implementation Magazine, and the Daily Beast among others. (the Police Department). She graduated of aid programs in multicultural settings. She Murphy is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate from the University of Chicago with an spent three years in the U.S. Peace Corps, School of Journalism and the London School interdisciplinary degree in political science, serving in Rwanda and Kazakhstan. of Economics. She was born in Barbados and social psychology and creative writing, raised in New York City. and last year completed a fellowship on the Kirsten West Savali professional ethics of journalism, sponsored Kirsten West Savali is the senior writer for Nicole Porette by the Museum of Jewish Heritage (called TheRoot.com, where— as both a writer and Nicole Porette has been an editor since 2009 the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of cultural critic—she explores the intersections on the NY1 News Assignment Desk in New Professional Ethics, or FASPE). of race, social justice, religion, feminism, York City, where she has covered news rang- politics, and pop-culture. Her work has ing from local, community-based stories to Gabriel Tynes been featured on HuffingtonPost.com, Salon. national and international headlines. She has Gabriel Tynes is the assistant managing com, DAME Magazine, ClutchMagOnline. traveled to neighborhoods with high crime editor of Lagniappe—Mobile, Alabama’s com, EBONY.com, xoJane.com, Alternet. rates, interviewed members of the City Coun- 12-year-old news weekly. A graduate of org, TheGrio.com, and more. West Savali’s cil who are dedicated to changing those num- the University of South Alabama with a work has been studied in several college bers, and more importantly spoken with the bachelor’s degree in communications and a courses across the country. She has appeared residents and crime victims in those areas. Her concentration in print journalism, Tynes has on Fusion’s “Alicia Menendez Tonight” to role as an Assignment Editor allows her to see nearly nine years of professional reporting discuss rampant police brutality against Black every side of a story and to hear firsthand the experience including positions as a reporter women. And as a proud ally of the LGBTQ issues from those involved. She has a strong and an editor. His responsibilities include community, West Savali joined Michael Eric interest in criminal justice and has been focus- leading a team of three full-time reporters to Dyson to speak at Alcorn State University’s ing more of her time on these stories over the provide “a little something extra for Mobile,” Diversity & Inclusion Summit. West Savali past few months. while also coordinating and editing editorial currently resides in Mississippi with her content from at least 10 regular contributors. husband, Savali, and their three sons, Walker, Matt Stroud Hired as a reporter, he was promoted to his Dash and Reid. Matt Stroud is an investigative journalist with current position in April 2014, where he Bloomberg Businessweek whose reporting also continues to write. Tynes has regularly has been published by the Associated Press, reported on county and local governments, Reuters, The Atlantic, The Nation, Politico, law and courts and breaking news. He is and many others. His reporting has led to the also proficient in basic web development, release of two people who were wrongfully multimedia and data journalism. Lagniappe convicted of homicide. It has also preempted has a print distribution of 25,000 copies in a prison closure, dug into a police algorithm Mobile and Baldwin counties and counts designed to pinpoint the 400 most dangerous more than 80,000 monthly readers online. people in Chicago, and dug into a massive scheme playing out within a multi-billion Beth Walton dollar NYSE-traded company. That company Beth Walton is an award winning journalist is now being investigated by the SEC and covering social issues for the Asheville the FBI. Stroud is deeply familiar with more Citizen-Times in North Carolina. Walton and water issues along the Central Coast of California. He enjoys golf, backpacking and body surfing.

Brandt Williams Brandt Williams has covered the city of Minneapolis for more than 20 years. For the last seven years, Brandt has worked in the Minnesota Public Radio News Minneapolis bureau covering city and county government, public safety, courts and racial disparities. Williams has produced several investigative stories on gun violence in Minneapolis and its disparate impact on the city’s black community. He has also written and produced numerous stories on the historical and Quattrone Fellows ongoing rift between members of the black community and the Minneapolis police department. His regional and national awards Biographies include: a Silver Gavel, an Eric Sevareid, a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists; and he was named a finalist for the Scripps Howard Victoria Bekiempis coverage of mental health treatment in jails; Foundation’s National Journalism Award. He Victoria Bekiempis is a senior writer for and a 2012 Public Service award from the was also a 2004 Knight Fellow and a 2011 Newsweek. Her coverage of legal issues for Society of Professional Journalists for a story Guggenheim Fellow. Before coming to MPR the magazine has ranged from data-driven about children on Texas’s sex offender registry. in 2000, Williams was the executive editor stories to man-bites-dog shorts. In the wake She was also a 2014 Livingston Awards of Insight News, the state’s largest African of the Michael Brown shooting, Bekiempis finalist and Pushcart nominee. She holds an American-owned newspaper. Born in Flint, broke the story that traffic-ticketing practices M.F.A. in Nonfiction from the University Michiganhe graduated from the University have fueled racial tensions in St. Louis of Arizona, where she taught, and a B. A. in of Minnesota with a degree in Speech County, Missouri. Before joining Newsweek, English from the University of Texas. Her Communications in 1991. Bekiempis worked as a reporter/producer freelance reporting and essays have appeared for DNAinfo.com New York, an award- in The Atlantic, VICE, Salon.com, and Fourth winning local news website; before that, Genre, and have been anthologized. She lives she was a Village Voice staff writer. She has in Houston. written for The Guardian; The Associated Press; The Christian Science Monitor; Bitch: Frank Stoltze Feminist Response to Pop Culture; the Frank Stoltze is a reporter for KPCC, the Tampa Bay Times; the Bradenton (Florida) National Public Radio affiliate in Los Angeles. Herald; and the Daily Hampshire Gazette He covers the criminal justice system and in Massachusetts. She speaks Spanish and politics. Stoltze has won numerous awards, French. Bekiempis is from Tampa, Florida. including an LA Press Club award for an Unsurprisingly, she is a lifelong fan of “Law investigative series on a racist street gang and & Order.” a Golden Mike for his documentary on the historic recall of California Governor Gray Emily DePrang Davis. The LA Press Club twice named him Emily DePrang joined the Texas Observer Radio Journalist of the Year. The Society in 2011 after contributing to the magazine of Professional Journalists named him a for a decade. She specializes in long-form Distinguished Journalist. He’s appeared on investigative pieces about criminal justice and NPR, PBS, the BBC, the Associated Press public health, especially as they intersect or Radio Network and The California Report, relate to poverty, privatization or abuse, and and serves as well as a fill-in talk show host has received several honors including: a 2014 and news anchor. Previously, Stoltze worked National Magazine Award nomination for at Pacifica Radio in LA and KKJZ in LA as the an investigation of police brutality; a 2013 morning anchor. He began his career covering National Health Journalism Fellowship for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant THE HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. For more information, visit www.hfg.org

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