13TH ANNUAL HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM SYMPOSIUM ON CRIME IN AMERICA

JUSTICE IN THE HEARTLAND

FEBRUARY 15TH AND 16TH, 2018 JOHN JAY COLLEGE 524 W. 59TH STREET NEW YORK, NY AGENDA

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 All Thursday panels take place in the Moot Court, John Jay College, 6th Floor of the new building

8:30 – 9:00am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 12:30 – 2:30pm LUNCH for Fellows and invited guests only 9:00 – 9:30am WELCOME THE WHITE HOUSE PRISON Stephen Handelman, Director, Center on Media REFORM INITIATIVES Crime and Justice, John Jay College Mark Holden, Senior VP and General Counsel, Daniel F. Wilhelm, President, Harry Frank Koch Industries Guggenheim Foundation 2:30 – 4:00pm Karol V. Mason, President, John Jay College PANEL 3: of Criminal Justice CRIME TRENDS 2017-2018— 9:30 – 11:00am IS THE HOMICIDE ‘SPIKE’ REAL? PANEL 1: OPIATES— Thomas P. Abt, Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (PART 1) Alfred Blumstein, J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research, José Diaz-Briseño, Washington correspondent, Carnegie Mellon University La Reforma, Mexico Shytierra Gaston, Assistant Professor, Department Paul Cell, First Vice President, International of Criminal Justice, Indiana University-Bloomington Association of Chiefs of Police; Chief of Police, Montclair State University (NJ) Richard Rosenfeld, Founders Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University Rita Noonan, Chief, Health Systems and Trauma of Missouri - St. Louis Systems Branch, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention MODERATOR Cheri Walter, Chief Executive Officer, The Ohio Robert Jordan Jr, former anchor, Chicago WGN-TV Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities

MODERATOR 4:00 – 4:15pm BREAK Kevin Johnson, journalist, USA Today 4:15 – 6:00pm 11:00am – 12:30pm PANEL 4: CORRECTIONS / PANEL 2: OPIATES— SENTENCING REFORM UPDATE THE BATTLE SO FAR (PART 2) Leann Bertsch, President, Association of State Correctional Administrators; Director, North Dakota The Hon. Judith Claire, (ret) Chatauqua County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (NY) Family Treatment Court Director, Public Safety Performance The Hon. Craig Hannah, Presiding judge, “Opiate Adam Gelb, Project, Pew Charitable Trusts Treatment Court”, Buffalo Director, Health and Addiction Scott Higham, Washington Post Kathleen F. Maurer, Services and Medical Director of the Connecticut Brandon del Pozo, Chief of Police, Burlington VT Department of Correction Joseph Rannazzisi, former Deputy Assistant Vikrant Reddy, Senior Research Fellow, Administrator of Office of Diversion Control, DEA Charles Koch Institute John Chapman Young, Senior Assistant Attorney David Singleton, Director, Ohio Justice & Policy Center General, Cherokee Nation MODERATOR MODERATOR Martin Horn, Distinguished Lecturer, Department Stephen Handelman, Director, CMCJ of Law & Police Science, John Jay

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 All sessions unless otherwise noted, take place in the 9th floor conference room, John Jay, new building

8:30 – 9:00am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST STORY LABS for fellows and invited guests only 9:00 – 10:30am PANEL 5: CORRECTING ERROR— 1:30 – 3:00pm CAN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM COVERING SEXUAL ASSAULTS: FIX ITS MISTAKES? WHAT’S NEWS? WHAT ISN’T? Brooklyn, NY DA Eric Gonzalez, FACILITATORS Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, Barbara Cassidy, Playwright, Adjunct Professor, Kim Ogg, DA Harris County, Texas John Jay College Associate Professor of Linguistic MODERATOR Shonna Trinch, Anthropology, John Jay College Paul Heaton, Research Director, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice 3:00 – 3:15pm BREAK

10:30 – 10:45am BREAK 3:15 – 4:15pm PRIVACY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: 10:45am – 12pm IS THERE A RIGHT TO BE PANEL 6: UNDERSTANDING THE “FORGOTTEN” ONLINE? UNDERGROUND GUN MARKET Philip Cook, Professor Emeritus, Duke University FACILITATORS David Hureau, Assistant Professor, State University Bruce Shapiro, Director, DART Center on of New York, Albany Trauma and Journalism Andrew Papachristos, Professor of Sociology Miranda S. Spivack, Pulliam Distinguished Visiting and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research Professor of Journalism at DePauw University at Northwestern University

Kimberley Smith, Research Manager, The Crime 4:15 – 4:30pm BREAK Lab, University of Chicago

MODERATOR 4:30 – 6:00pm Mark Obbie, journalist FINAL WRAP (with Fellows) FACILITATORS 12:00 – 1:30pm Joe Domanick, CMCJ staff, Conference Speakers WORKING LUNCH THE YEAR IN CRIME COVERAGE for Fellows and invited guests only Moot Court, 6th Floor Rubén Rosario, Criminal Justice Journalists Panelist / Speakers

Thomas P. Abt Alfred Blumstein Thomas Abt is a Senior Fellow at both the Alfred Blumstein, Ph.D., is the J. Erik Jons- Harvard Law and Kennedy Schools, where he son University Professor of Urban Systems teaches, studies, and writes on the use of ev- and Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon idence-informed approaches to reducing gun, University. Prof. Blumstein’s research over gang, and youth violence, among other topics. the past 20 years has covered many aspects Abt also serves as a member of the Campbell of criminal justice phenomena and policy, in- Collaboration’s Criminal Justice Advisory cluding crime measurement, criminal careers, Board and as an Advisory Board Member to sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation, prison the Police Executive Programme at the Univer- populations, demographic trends, juvenile sity of Cambridge. Before joining Harvard, Abt violence, and drug-enforcement policy. A past served as Deputy Secretary for Public Safety to president of the American Society of Crimi- Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York, where nologists and one of the country’s most re- he oversaw all criminal justice and homeland nowned criminal justice scholars, he has been security agencies. Before his work as Deputy one of the most popular speakers at John Jay/ Secretary, Abt served as Chief of Staff to the Guggenheim Symposia. Among his most re- Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Depart- cent accomplishments, he headed the National ment of Justice, where he worked with the na- Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR), tion’s principal criminal justice grant-making a multi-university initiative funded by the Na- and research agencies to integrate evidence, tional Science Foundation and headquartered policy, and practice. at the Heinz College.

Leann Bertsch Barbara Cassidy Leann Bertsch, president of the Association of Barbara Cassidy received her MFA Playwrit- State Correctional Administrators (ASCA), has ing from Brooklyn College. Her play, Interim, been Director of North Dakota’s Department of (nominated for the Barrie Stavis Award) pre- Corrections and Rehabilitation since July 2005. miered at SMU (Dallas) in March 2012, and She served as the Commissioner of the North is published in the anthology, New Downtown Dakota Department of Labor from September Now. Her work has been seen in New York at 2004 through June 2005. Prior to entering state The Flea Theatre, Playwrights’ Horizons, Little government, Ms. Bertzh was Assistant State’s Theatre at Dixon Place, The New York Interna- Attorney for Burleigh County (1996-2004) an- tional Fringe Festival, JACK and Bric Studios. dan attorney for Legal Assistance of North Da- She is a 2015 MacDowell Fellow and was a kota (1992-1996). She retired as a Major in the 2010-2011 LMCC Workspace Artist. She has Judge Advocate General’s Corp of the North received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Coun- Dakota National Guard in 2007 after 21 years cil and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, is of service. She earned a Juris Doctor from the an affiliated artist with New Georges, and is an University of North Dakota School of Law and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Crimi- a Bachelor of Science degree from North Da- nal Justice. She teaches the class Seeing Rape kota State University. with Shonna Trinch which looks at ideas, ac- tions, uses, and depictions of rape in our world. She is working on a book project with Shonna Trinch stemming from the Seeing Rape course venile Justice and Child Welfare (2015). She is and is heading up the Sexual Justice NOW the author of the Bench Book Guide for Family initiative at John Jay. Her latest play is called Court Judges, written in association with Fam- “Mrs. Loman,” and is a feminist imagining of ily Court Judge Philip Cortese of Montgomery what could happen to someone like Linda Lo- County. Judge Claire retired as a Family Court man from Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Sales- Judge in June 2016 and is currently approved man” after her husband Willy commits suicide. in NYS as a Judicial Hearing Officer.

Paul Cell Philip J. Cook Chief Paul Cell is First Vice President Interna- Philip J. Cook, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus tional Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) of public policy, economics, and sociology at and incoming president. A 37-year veteran of Duke University. Much of his research has fo- law enforcement, he has served as the chief of cused on understanding how and why to sepa- police at the Montclair State University Police rate guns from violence through effective regu- Department in New Jersey since 2001. Chief lation and law enforcement. He is author or co- Cell is a member and past president of the New author of books on alcohol control (Paying the Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police Tab), state lotteries Selling Hope, the increas- (NJSACOP) and chairman of the New Jersey ing inequality of income (The Winner-Take-All Police Chiefs Foundation. He is a graduate of Society, a New York Times “Notable Book of the FBI National Academy, FBI LEEDS, the the year”), the economic costs of gun violence, IACP National Law Enforcement Leadership, and, with Kristin Goss, The Gun Debate: What and Institute on Violence Against Women. Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2004). He He has also worked and trained internation- has served as a consultant with the US Depart- ally through programs with the South African ment of Justice Criminal Division and the US Police Services, the Royal Canadian Mounted Department of Treasury Enforcement Divi- Police, the Ontario Police Chiefs, and at the sion. Prof. Cook is an elected member of the International College of Policing at Bramshill, National Academy of Medicine, and a fellow England. Chief Cell is a co-author and edi- of the American Society of Criminology. tor of the textbook, “Creating Comprehensive Campus Sexual Assault Response Teams,” and Brandon del Pozo he serves on the working groups of the New Brandon del Pozo was appointed Chief of Jersey Governor’s Advisory Council Against Police of Burlington, Vermont in Septem- Sexual Violence and the New Jersey Homeland ber, 2015. Prior to assuming leadership of Security Emergency Services. In addition, he Vermont’s largest municipal police force, he was appointed to the advisory boards for the served 19 years in the New York City Police Clery Center and the Civic Research Institute Department, where he retired at the rank of Quarterly Review. deputy inspector. From 2005 to 2007, he served as the NYPD’s intelligence liaison to the Arab The Hon. Judith Claire Middle East and India, based out of Jordan’s Judge Claire has received statewide, national capital city of Amman. Born in Brooklyn, New and international attention for her work as York, he began his police career in 1997 on pa- Chautauqua County (NY) Family Court Judge. trol in the 67th Precinct, in East Flatbush. Chief The court’s initiatives have included collabora- del Pozo is currently a member of the Police tion on a systems-of-care model that received Executive Research Forum, and was the 2016 a national award, acting as a pilot site for de- recipient of its Gary Hayes Memorial Award livery of trauma-informed justice, a mediation for Police Leadership. A graduate of Dart- program that has served as a state model, and mouth College, Chief del Pozo holds a Master a reunification program, BARJ (Balanced & of Public Administration from the Kennedy Restorative Justice) focused on juvenile de- School of Government, where he is an inaugu- linquency and PINs cases. Her awards include ral 9/11 Public Service Fellow, and a Master of the Unified Court System th8 Judicial District Arts in Criminal Justice from John Jay College, Gender and Racial Fairness Award (2005); and where he was a John Reisenbach Scholar. the NYS Bar Association Levine Award for Ju- José Diaz-Briseño Shytierra Gaston Jose Diaz-Briseño is the Washington corre- Shytierra Gaston, Ph.D., is an Assistant Profes- spondent for La Reforma of Mexico. Between sor in the Department of Criminal Justice at 2013 and 2015, he was the Washington corre- Indiana University-Bloomington. Dr. Gaston’s spondent for MundoFOX. His reporting cov- research and teaching expertise centers on two ers US-Mexico affairs, including immigration, broad areas: the intersection of race/ethnicity, drugs, trade and border security, etc. Before crime, and criminal justice and the U.S. correc- arriving in Washington, he was based in Tuc- tional system. In particular, she uses quantita- son, Arizona where he covered border affairs tive, qualitative, and mixed methodologies to for El Imparcial, a regional daily in northwest- investigate research topics related to the treat- ern Mexico. He holds a master’s degree from ment of people of color during criminal justice Columbia University’s Graduate School of processing, the disparate impact of the criminal Journalism and was a recipient of a Fulbright justice system on communities of color, the re- Scholarship. He started his journalism career entry experiences of inmates, and the collateral as a news researcher for The Los Angeles Times consequences of incarceration for offenders, Mexico City bureau. He studied International families, and communities. Her recent research Relations at El Colegio de Mexico and has done has examined the sources of race disparities in courses on US studies at the University of Cali- drug law enforcement, the long-term mental fornia-San Diego. Mr. Diaz Briseño was born and health consequences of parental incarceration, raised in Mexico City. and the highly-speculated 2015 and 2016 rise in U.S. homicide rates. Dr. Gaston is an active Joe Domanick member of the American Society of Criminol- Joe Domanick is Associate Director of the ogy and the Racial Democracy, Crime, and Center on Media, Crime and Justice and West Justice Network. Coast Bureau Chief of The Crime Report. His latest book, “Blue: The Los Angeles Police Adam Gelb Department and the Battle to Redeem Ameri- Adam Gelb is director of the Pew Charitable can Policing” has received glowing national Trusts’ Public Safety Performance Project, which reviews. Earlier books include: “Cruel Jus- helps states advance policies and practices in tice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime adult and juvenile sentencing and corrections that in America’s Golden State”; and “To Protect protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and Serve: The LAPD’s Century of War in the and control corrections costs. As the project lead, City of Dreams”, (which won the 1995 Edgar Gelb oversees Pew’s assistance to states seeking Allan Poe Award for Best Non-Fiction Book.) a greater public safety return on their corrections He is a frequent contributor to magazines and spending. He also supervises a vigorous research newspapers across the U.S., including over 50 portfolio that highlights strategies for reducing re- criminal-justice related op-ed pieces for the cidivism while cutting costs. He began his career Los Angeles Times. From 1999-2012 he taught as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, journalism at the School of Journalism at USC and staffed the U.S. Senate Judiciary Commit- Annenberg’s School for Communication. tee during negotiations and final passage of the Based in Los Angeles, Domanick was the prin- Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act cipal coordinator of the CMCJ’s police-media of 1994. He was policy director for the lieutenant roundtables between 2009-2012, and co-author governor of Maryland (1995-2000), and served of a Department of Justice booklet on police as executive director of the Georgia Sentencing crisis management. Domanick holds graduate Commission from 2001 to 2003. Before joining degrees in social science from Hunter College Pew, he was vice president for programs at the CUNY; in sociology/education from Colum- Georgia Council on Substance Abuse. Gelb grad- bia University; and in broadcast journalism uated from the University of Virginia, and holds from the USC’s Annenberg School of Journal- a Master’s from Harvard University’s Kennedy ism. Before becoming a journalist, Domanick School of Government. worked for 13 years as a public schoolteacher in the South Bronx and in Los Angeles. Stephen Handelman Stephen Handelman is Director of the Cen- ter on Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ) at Heaton’s criminal justice work spans a wide John Jay College, and Executive Editor of range of areas, including measurement of im- The Crime Report. He also serves as host of pacts of criminal justice interventions; applica- “Criminal Justice Matters,” a monthly TV tions of cost-benefit analysis to CJ programs; show at CUNY-TV; and as consulting manag- and evaluations of the CJ implications of pub- ing editor of Americas Quarterly, a journal on lic policies related to controlled substances. hemisphere affairs published by The Americas His work on policing, courts, and drug offend- Society. An award-winning veteran journalist, ing has been widely cited by policymakers and columnist and foreign correspondent with over the media. He has also published numerous 30 years’ experience in reporting and editing empirical studies of tort law and insurance (most recently TIME Magazine), he has been regulation. His research has been published a consultant to U.S. law enforcement agencies in leading scholarly journals such as the Yale and the United Nations, and has lectured and Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, New Eng- taught at universities. land Journal of Medicine, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, and The Hon. Craig D. Hannah the American Journal of Public Health. Prior Judge Craig D. Hannah serves as the Supervis- to joining Penn Law, Mr. Heaton served as the ing Judge over the Lackawanna, Tonawanda Director of the RAND Institute for Civil Jus- and North Tonawanda City Courts where he tice and Professor at the Pardee RAND Gradu- also presides over the Adolescent Diversion ate School. and Opiate Intervention Parts. His Opiate In- tervention Court is the first of its kind in the Scott Higham nation and is dedicated to treating the needs Scott Higham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning mem- of the people first who come into contact with ber of the investigations unit of The Washing- the law. He was elected as Buffalo City Court ton Post. Since joining The Post in 2000, he has Judge in November 2006 and re-elected to a examined everything from the deaths of foster second 10-year term November 2016. Previ- care children in D.C. and the treatment of de- ously, he was an attorney in private practice with tainees at Abu Ghraib, to fatal police shootings close to 10 years’ experience as a trial lawyer in and the forces behind the opioid epidemic. He city, state and federal Courts. He also serves as grew up in New York, where his father was a an Adjunct Professor at the State University at homicide detective in the South Bronx. He is Buffalo Law School, where he lectures in Trial a graduate of Stony Brook University and the Advocacy and Procedure. A graduate of Canisius Columbia Journalism School. He always want- College and the University at Buffalo Law ed to be a police officer and attend the John School, Judge Hannah began his legal career as Jay College of Criminal Justice, but his father an Assistant District Attorney in the Erie County talked him out it. District Attorney’s Office. Judge Hannah’s hon- ors and achievements include ‘Jurist of the Year’ Mark Holden (2008) by the Buffalo Special Police Benevolent Mark Holden is senior vice president, general Association, and the Community Service award counsel and corporate secretary of Koch In- by the Afro-American Police Association (2013). dustries, Inc. He is also president and COO of He is a past president of the Minority Bar Asso- the Legal Division of Koch Companies Public ciation of Western New York and the recipient of Sector, LLC, which provides legal, government its Legal Service Award. and public affairs services to Koch Industries, Inc. and its affiliates. In addition, he also serves Paul Heaton Ph.D. as Chairman of the Board of Freedom Partners Paul Heaton is a Senior Fellow and Academic Chamber of Commerce, Inc. and serves on the Director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Board of Directors of Americans For Prosper- Administration of Justice. Much of his re- ity. Before joining Koch, Mr. Holden was an search aims to apply methodological insights associate with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & from economics to inform issues in legal and Feld in Washington, D.C. Mr. Holden earned criminal justice policy. An expert on legal and a bachelor’s degree in political science from regulatory program and policy evaluation, Mr. the University of Massachusetts. He earned his law degree from the Columbus School of Law NBER-NSF Crime Research Fellow, a Doctor- at the Catholic University of America, where al Fellow at the University of Chicago Crime he was an associate editor of the Catholic Uni- Lab, an IGERT-NSF Doctoral Fellow in the versity Law Review. Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at Harvard, and a Research Fel- Martin Horn low at the Program in Criminal Justice Policy Martin Horn joined the John Jay faculty in the and Management at Harvard. fall of 2009 as Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Law & Police Science. Current- Kevin Johnson ly, executive director of the New York State Kevin Johnson has covered criminal justice is- Sentencing Commission, he served as Com- sues, national law enforcement and the Justice missioner of the New York City Department of Department for USA Today since 1994. During Correction and Department of Probation from that time, he has examined state and federal 2003 to 2009. As a result of his leadership, the sentencing policies, the use of solitary confine- City dramatically changed the way the family ment, the application of the death penalty and court system responds to juvenile delinquents, the prevalence of mental illness at all levels of replacing destructive institutionalization with the criminal justice system. In 2015, a USA To- community based supervision demonstrated day series documenting the nation’s failure to to obtain better outcomes. He was a member provide adequate care for the mentally ill was of then-Governor Tom Ridge’s Senior Staff recognized with an Aronson Award for Social as Secretary of Administration for the State Justice Journalism. Before arriving at USA To- of Pennsylvania, as Pennsylvania’s Secretary day, he was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times of Corrections (1995-2000), and as executive and the San Antonio Light. director and chief operating officer for the New York State Division of Parole. Horn began his Robert H. Jordan, Jr. career as a New York State Parole Officer in Robert H. Jordan, Jr., Ph.D. retired as week- 1969, and went on to become assistant com- end anchor for WGN-TV’s News at Nine missioner of corrections for New York State (Chicago), and is currently founder and pres- and Superintendent of Hudson Correctional ident of Jordan & Jordan Communications, Facility. He earned a bachelor’s degree in gov- Inc. The Emmy Award-winning TV news- ernment from Franklin and Marshall College man is the author of the recently published in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1969, and a mas- “Murder in the News,” (Promethus Books), ter’s degree in criminal justice from John Jay an examination of broadcast journalism’s College. coverage of crime. A 40-year news veteran, Robert’s previous stints include reporting David Hureau for WSM-TV in Nashville, and CBS News, David Hureau, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor where he covered stories for the nightly at the School of Criminal Justice, University news with Walter Cronkite. He is also the au- at Albany-SUNY. He received his Ph.D. from thor of two screen plays, “Anthony’s Key” and Harvard University in Sociology and Social “Multi-Man,” and has written for the Chicago Policy in 2016, his M.P.P. from the Harvard Tribune, including an award-winning article on Kennedy School in 2006, and his B.A. from surviving prostate cancer. An active participant Wesleyan University in 2001. David is broadly in the Chicago community, Mr. Jordan serves interested in the relationship between crime, on the Board of Directors of several local orga- punishment, and social inequality, with a par- nizations, including The Safer Foundation, The ticular research interest in understanding the Night Ministry, The John G. Shedd Aquarium, nature of violent crime and its consequences. and the Loyola Family Business Center. He Recent research projects include an ethnogra- also sits on the Salvation Army advisory board. phy of a network of young men disproportion- A native of Atlanta, Ga., he earned his under- ately exposed to homicide, a mixed methods graduate degree from Roosevelt University, investigation of the market for illegal guns, and a master’s degree from Northeastern Illinois a policy evaluation of a major gang violence University, and a Ph.D. in Educational Leader- intervention effort. David has served as an ship & Policy Studies from Loyola University in Chicago. During the Fall Quarter of 2014, in 2011, she was assistant medical director at Robert was the first Journalist-in-Residence at Correctional Managed Health Care, a division the University of Chicago. of the University of Connecticut Health Cen- ter, which contracts with the state corrections Karol V. Mason department for offender medical care. During Karol V. Mason was appointed the fifth presi- her career, Dr. Maurer has provided hands-on dent of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in clinical care and medical program manage- August, 2017. Over the course of her long ca- ment in the private sector. Several of her ini- reer, she has been a legal pioneer and an excep- tiatives include working to expand Medicaid tional voice for equality, fairness, and criminal access to halfway house residents and to inte- justice reform. As U.S. Assistant Attorney Gen- grate Medicaid utilization management with eral and head of the Department of Justice’s the correctional system. She is also developing Office of Justice Programs, Mason oversaw an a system-wide medication assisted treatment annual budget of $4 billion to support an array program for the Connecticut DOC. Dr. Maurer of state and local criminal justice agencies, ju- earned her MD and MPH degrees from Yale venile justice programs, and services for crime University School of Medicine. She holds an victims, and oversaw the National Institute of MBA from the University of Connecticut and Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, is board-certified in internal medicine, occupa- among a wide range of other efforts. She led tional and environmental medicine, and addic- the Department of Justice’s work to address the tion medicine. She was awarded the Coalition issue of community trust in the justice system of Correctional Health Authorities national through a variety of programs including the award for Leadership in Correctional Health- National Initiative for Building Community care, co-leads the American Correctional Asso- Trust and Justice, a partnership with John Jay ciation-American Society of Addiction Medi- College and other academic institutions across cine Committee for MAT in Corrections which the country designed to address lack of trust in recently succeeded in implementing a national the criminal justice system. She was a leader in joint policy supporting MAT along the justice the Obama Administration on juvenile justice continuum, and this December was named by issues, bail reform and re-entry for individuals the Public Health Institute in their list of the leaving prison, and in her distinguished career top 10 public health and social justice media at Alston & Bird LLP, she was the first African bites of 2017. American woman elected as chair of the man- agement committee at any major national firm. Rita Noonan Previously, Mason served as Deputy Associate Rita Noonan, PhD, is the leader of the Health Attorney General from 2009 to 2012. She led Systems and Trauma Systems Branch in the the Office of Justice Programs from June 2013 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s to January 2017 after being nominated by Pres- (CDC) Division of Unintentional Injury Pre- ident Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. vention, where both Rx drug overdose and trau- Mason spent almost three decades at Alston & matic brain injury prevention activities reside. Bird, LLP, where she chaired the Public Fi- Prior to joining CDC, Ms. Noonan worked as nance Group. She was also a member of the a sociology and women’s studies professor at Board of Trustees of the University of North the University of Iowa. In this capacity she Carolina from 2001 to 2009 and Vice Chair of conducted research in Latin America on the that Board from 2007 to 2009. Mason received global debt crisis, gender, social movements, an A.B. in Mathematics from the University of and health outcomes. Ms. Noonan has been the North Carolina, and a J.D. from the University recipient of several prestigious awards, includ- of Michigan Law School. ing a Fulbright Scholarship and a MacArthur Fellowship. Ms. Noonan received her doctoral Kathleen F. Maurer degree in sociology from Indiana University in Dr. Kathleen F. Maurer, MD., is Director of 1998. Health and Addiction Services and Medical Director of the Connecticut Department of Correction. Before assuming her current post Mark Obbie illicit drugs, pharmaceuticals, pharmaceu- Mark Obbie is a freelance journalist based in tical control, corresponding responsibility, upstate New York whose work has appeared in security, chemicals, synthetic drugs and The Crime Report, The Trace, The New York clandestine laboratories to hundreds of Times, Slate, Pacific Standard, TakePart, and audiences representing law enforcement, others. Mr. Obbie, a 2014-15 Soros Justice attorneys and judges, professional organi- Media Fellow, focuses his reporting and writ- zations, pharmaceutical industry executives ing on public policy concerning victims of and employees, Congress, and many others. violence, sentencing, policing, and violence He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in prevention. He is the former executive edi- Pharmacy from Butler University and a Juris tor of The American Lawyer and a former as- Doctor from the Detroit College of Law at sociate professor of magazine journalism at Michigan State University. He’s also a regis- Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School tered pharmacist in Indiana and a member of of Public Communications. the State Bar of Michigan.

Andrew V. Papachristos Vikrant P. Reddy Andrew V. Papachristos is a Professor of Vikrant P. Reddy is a Senior Fellow at the Sociology and Faculty Fellow at the Institute Charles Koch Institute. He previously served for Policy Research ������������������������at����������������������� Northwestern Univer- as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Texas Pub- sity. Prof. Papachristos aims to understand how lic Policy Foundation, where he managed the the connected nature of cities and their citizens, launch of TPPF’s national Right on Crime ini- neighborhoods and institutions affect what we tiative in 2010. Mr. Reddy has also worked as feel, think, and do. His main research applies a research assistant at the Cato Institute, as a network science to the study of gun violence, judicial clerk to the Hon. Gina M. Benavides police misconduct, illegal gun markets, street in Texas, and as an attorney in private practice. gangs, and urban neighborhoods. He is also in He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, and the process of completing a manuscript on the he serves on the Executive Committee of the evolution of black street gangs and politics in Criminal Law Practice Group of the Federal- Chicago from the 1950s to the early-2000s. He ist Society. He is also an appointee to the U.S. is actively involved in policy related research, Commission on Civil Rights Texas State Ad- including the evaluation of gun violence pre- visory Committee. Reddy graduated from the vention programs in more than a dozen U.S. University of Texas at Austin, and he earned cities. An author of more than 50 articles, Prof. his law degree at the Southern Methodist Uni- Papachristos’ work has appeared in journals versity School of Law in Dallas. such as JAMA, The American Sociological Re- view, Criminology, The American Journal of Rubén Rosario Public Health, The New York Times, The Wash- Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in ington Post, and The Chicago Tribune, among New York City, Rubén Rosario is an award- other outlets. winning metro columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Rosario spent 11 years as Joseph T. Rannazzisi a staff writer at the New York Daily News Joseph T. Rannazzisi retired from the U.S. and covered the police, crime, Bronx and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Brooklyn court and Harlem “north of 96th October 2015 after serving over 29 years in St.” beats until leaving to become city editor law enforcement. Since June 2005, he served at the Pioneer Press in 1991. He launched as Deputy Assistant Administrator of the his column in 1997. His writings on criminal DEA Office of Diversion Control, where he justice and other topics have garnered more supervised DEA’s efforts to prevent, detect than eight first-place general column awards and investigate the diversion of pharmaceu- from the Minnesota Society of Professional tical controlled substances and listed chemi- Journalists, as well as honors from the Na- cals from legitimate distribution channels. A tional Council on Crime and Delinquency nationally recognized speaker and instruc- the Child Welfare League, of America in re- tor, he has provided training concerning cent years. He is a longtime board member and treasurer of Criminal Justice Journalists. Service for the District of Columbia. After A married father of two, he is a survivor—so moving to Cincinnati in the summer of 2001, far—of Stage 4 Multiple Myeloma. Mr. Singleton practiced at Thompson Hine be- fore joining OJPC as its Executive Director in Richard Rosenfeld July 2002. He is also an Assistant Professor of Richard Rosenfeld, Ph.D., is the Founders Pro- Law at Northern Kentucky University’s Salm- fessor of Criminology and Criminal Justice on P. Chase College of Law. at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. His research interests include the study of Kimberley Smith crime trends, crime statistics, and crimi- Kim Smith manages the multi-city gun markets nal justice policy. Professor Rosenfeld is a project at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, Fellow and past President of the American work done in partnership with affiliates in six Society of Criminology. He received the major U.S. cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, Bos- Society’s 2017 Edwin Sutherland Award ton, New York, Baltimore, and New Orleans. for contributions to criminology. Previously, Ms. Smith oversaw a portfolio of randomized controlled trials designed to test Bruce Shapiro the effectiveness of financial products designed Bruce Shapiro is Executive Director of the for low-income households at Innovations for Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a Poverty Action in New Haven, CT. She holds project of Columbia University Graduate a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from School of Journalism encouraging innova- McGill University. tive reporting on violence, conflict and trag- edy worldwide. An award-winning reporter Miranda S. Spivack on human rights, criminal justice and politics, Miranda S. Spivack is the Pulliam Distin- Shapiro is a contributing editor at The Nation guished Visiting Professor of Journalism at and U.S. correspondent for Late Night Live DePauw University. A former Washington Post on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s editor and reporter, she is an independent jour- Radio National. He is also Senior Advisor nalist for Reveal from the Center for Investiga- for Academic Affairs at Columbia Journalism tive Reporting and The New York Times, among School, where he teaches ethics. His books other news organizations. “State Secrets,” her include Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years five-part series for Reveal/CIR, was a winner of Investigative Journalism in America and of SPJ’s Sunshine Award in 2017. She is a Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and America›s Future. He is a recipient of the was a Ford Foundation fellow at Yale Law International Society for Traumatic Stress School, where she was awarded a Master of Public Advocacy Award for “outstanding Studies in Law. and fundamental contributions to the social understanding of trauma.” Shonna Trinch Shonna Trinch, Ph.D., is a Linguistic An- David Singleton thropologist at John Jay College, CUNY. David A. Singleton is executive director, of Shonna does research on topics ranging from the Ohio Justice & Policy Center. An Attorney rape, intimate-partner violence and narrative at Law, he received his J.D., cum laude, from to Brooklyn’s gentrification, redevelopment, Harvard Law School in 1991, and his A.B. and eminent domain. Shonna has published in Economics and Public Policy, cum laude, several articles on gender-related violence from Duke University in 1987. Upon gradua- in leading journals. Her first book, Lati- tion from law school, Mr. Singleton received a nas’ narratives of domestic abuse: Discrep- Skadden Fellowship to work at the Legal Ac- ant versions of violence (John Benjamins, tion Center for the Homeless in New York City, 2003), examines how women report intimate where he practiced for three years. He then violence in different sociolegal settings. worked as a public defender for seven years, Currently, Shonna is devising a book project first with the Neighborhood Defender Service with Barbara Cassidy about the theoretical of Harlem and then with the Public Defender and pedagogical aspects of Seeing Rape and the public production of the student-play- John Chapman Young wrights’ work. She is also completing a book John Chapman Young is Senior Assistant entitled, What the signs say, with Edward Attorney General for the Cherokee Nation. Snajdr that examines how dominant culture Mr. Young currently serves as a tribal court establishes social hierarchy in gentrifying prosecutor representing the Cherokee Nation Brooklyn through storefront signs (forth- in proceedings before the Cherokee Nation coming, Vanderbilt). courts. As a prosecutor, he has focused on en- hancing the prosecution of domestic violence Cheri L. Walter and sexual assault crimes in Indian Coun- Cheri L. Walter is Chief Executive Officer of try. Likewise, he has focused on increased The Ohio Association of County Behavioral awareness of human trafficking in Indian Health Authorities. Ms. Walter has provided Country and improved coordination amongst more than 35 years of diversified, progres- the Cherokee Nation’s community partners sive leadership and management within and counterparts in federal law enforcement. non-profit organizations, association and Prior to joining the OAG, Mr. Young prac- large state departments in Ohio. She holds a ticed in the federal and state courts of New Master’s of Administration from Tiffin Uni- Mexico with an emphasis on plaintiffs’ civil versity and a BA in Community Health and rights litigation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Recreation from Bluffton College, and is a the New Mexico Human Rights Act, com- Licensed Independent Chemical Dependen- plex civil litigation and criminal defense. cy Counselor. She has served as the Chief Previously, he served as Associate Judge for Executive Officer of The Ohio Association the Delaware Tribal Court and as Director of of County Behavioral Health Authorities the National Tribal Trial College. (OACBHA), representing the county Alco- hol, Drug Addiction Services and Mental Health Boards for the past 15 years since its inception. Most importantly to Cheri, is the fact that she is an individual in long term recovery, and truly believes that Re- covery IS Beautiful!

Daniel F. Wilhelm Daniel F. Wilhelm is President of The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, a leader in addressing violence and conflict through research and programs. Previously, Mr. Wil- helm was a Senior Fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice, a non-governmental organization working to improve justice systems. From 2007-2015, he was Vera’s Vice President and Chief Program Officer. He joined the Insti- tute in 2001. Earlier Mr. Wilhelm was an at- torney at Sidley & Austin and served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn. He has written on justice matters for a number of publications and testified be- fore legislative and other panels in some 20 states. Mr. Wilhelm is a graduate of North- western University School of Law, Harvard Divinity School, and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. 2018 John Jay / H.F. Guggenheim Reporting Fellows

Alexandria Bordas Lynsi Burton Alexandria started writing about opioids in Lynsi Burton is a crime, courts and breaking her third day in the newsroom at the Asheville news reporter for the Seattle Post Intelligenc- Citizen Times. Western North Carolina, part of er, an online news website covering Seattle, the Appalachian Mountain region, has been King County and the greater Pacific North- hit hardest by the epidemic, with families and west. She has spent 4½ years at the PI track- children being the most vulnerable casualties. ing major crime in the region and responding Beginning in September, her first month at the to catastrophic events, including two school paper, she pitched a five-part enterprise series mass shootings, a helicopter crash, the Oso, on how opioids are creating a lost generation. Wash., landslide and the Dec. 18 2017 Am- It will be published mid-January with the pos- trak train derailment in DuPont, Wash. Lynsi sibility of being picked up nationally by their also covers criminal and civil court cases and network, USA Today. Before the Citizen Times, analyzes crime through the lenses of poverty, she worked as a political reporting intern for domestic violence, homelessness and mental the Miami Herald after graduating from Colum- illness, which are increasingly crucial issues as bia Journalism School in May. Her goal is to Seattle becomes more gentrified and unlivable continue investigating and reporting on the drug for poor and vulnerable populations. She also trend as the effects begin to unfold over the next specializes in writing about women’s issues. decade. She is a first-generation Cuban-Ameri- Lynsi is a three-time SPJ of Western Wash- can, and a Southern California native. ington award-winner and a 2013 SPJ Western Washington New Journalist of the Year. She Melissa Brown previously worked at the Skagit Valley Herald After cutting her teeth at the University of and Bremerton Patriot. Alabama student newspaper, where she won awards for her coverage of on-campus muggings Kathryn Casteel committed by college football papers, Melissa Kathryn Casteel has been a policy reporter began her professional career covering local poli- for FiveThirtyEight for almost a year. Policy tics and education for Alabama Media Group. sounds broad, but in particular she’s covered She’s since covered state politics for the Associ- criminal justice topics often, including the data ated Press, where she reported on a fatal officer- behind the opioid epidemic and treatment op- involved shooting and the crackdown on a dietary tions, police and the U.S. prison population. supplement flooding the U.S. She has broken As a relatively recent graduate from CUNY stories picked up by The New York Times, The Graduate School of Journalism, she thinks Chicago Tribune, ESPN, MSNBC and BuzzFeed “it’s safe to say my ambitious are high.” Kath- News, among other outlets. Her portfolio includes ryn is interested in finding the data behind a clips ranging from community policing and the story, but most passionate about investigating politics of healthcare to data-driven education topics that no one else is looking into. For ex- trends. After weathering layoffs and a brief stint ample, while a student at CUNY in 2016, she out of daily news, she believes her passion and did an investigative project on sexual harass- skillset belong in a newsroom like the Montgom- ment in the restaurant industry well before the ery Advertiser’s, where she aims to provide ho- #MeToo movement made national headlines. listic, balanced criminal justice coverage for her She has written about this topic a few times for community and home state. FiveThirtyEight since then, and believes the Fellowship will be a good place to explore her nonviolent offenders and was released early. It “next ambitious idea.” was in the county jail that he first considered journalism as a possible change in life direc- Lelani Clark tion. He read a first-person narrative piece in Lelani Clark is an award winning producer, Newsweek and it dawned on him that he was writer, and TV and Radio host. She works as capable of experiencing and communicating a communications executive and media trainer the experience as the author had done. Now he in New York for high profile celebrity clients, wants to use his past experience to approach business experts and best-selling authors. Ms. criminal justice through journalism in a way Clark is a graduate of the University of Califor- that he believes only a person who has lived it nia, Berkeley cum laude and is the recipient of can, and by making the experiences of offend- both the John Jay Tao and Guggenheim Fellow- ers relatable to a general audience that can then ship. Ms. Clark is currently acting as Executive evaluate what works and what doesn’t about Producer for a TV series focused on fraud and our system. cybercrime with Tough Cookie productions. Kia Gregory Sharon Cohen Kia Gregory reports she is “drawn to people Sharon Cohen is an Associated Press national living on the margins.” She excels at delving writer based in Chicago. She has written exten- beneath headlines, getting inside a community sively about criminal justice issues, including and learn about the lives of its people. She has the problem of wrongful convictions; Chicago examined policies around politics, education police misconduct (including its financial im- and criminal justice. For example, she spent pact); mandatory minimum drug sentences; time on the path of a 19-year-old shot twice how bail hurts the poor; trends in juvenile in less than a year through a pilot intervention sentencing laws; and inmates sentenced to program (a story submitted for a Pulitzer Prize), life without parole as juveniles now being re- and in an all-boys Latin high school preparing sentenced as a result of recent Supreme Court to graduate its first class—in a school where decisions. She has received dozens of honors, incoming freshmen, on average, read at a sixth- including The National Headliner Award for grade level. A journalist for 15 years, she uses feature writing, more than 20 awards for news, deep reporting, data analysis and exceptional feature and business writing/reporting from the narrative writing to show how communities are Chicago Headline Club, the New York Press affected by public policy. Kia has written for Club award for feature writing, and the Studs The Atlantic and The New Yorker, been on staff Terkel Community Media Award. She also is at the New York Times, and received national the recipient of the AP’s highest journalism awards for her work. honor, the Gramling Award, and is a four-time winner of the annual Associated Press Media Megan Guza Editors Award. Sharon is a runner-up in the se- Megan Guza has worked for the Pittsburgh ries category for the 2018 John Jay/H.F. Gug- Tribune-Review since 2012, where she has genheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Jour- spent the past three years covering crime, nalism award. courts, breaking news and the growing opioid epidemic. She has covered mass shootings, Micah Danney criminal trials, police brutality and, more re- Micah Danney is a recent graduate of the cently, the stories behind the opioid crisis. Her CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s inter- work has taken her from overdose-torn Ohio national concentration and an alumnus of the motels to the living rooms of grieving parents journalism program at Stony Brook University. grappling with the question of “why?” Megan He worked in local news across Long Island in has an undergraduate degree in journalism and the few years in between those degrees and did a master’s degree in criminal justice-focused freelance work in the last year. Before all this, communications. She was accepted to the he was incarcerated at 21 on a cocaine posses- Dart Center’s gun violence reporting institute sion charge. Although sentenced to two years, in February 2017, and she is slated to attend he completed the state’s Shock program for Boston University’s Power of the Narrative conference in March. Outside of the office and currently studying towards an MA in Busi- the courthouse, she spends much of her time ness and Economy at Columbia Journalism running, reading (true crime, of course) and School. mastering the art of cooking for one. Ashley Kang John Hinton Ashley is director of The Stand, Syracuse’s John Hinton, a writer for the Winston-Salem South Side Community Newspaper Project, Journal, became interested in journalism as a which is produced in partnership with S.I. teenager living through the Watergate era of Newhouse School of Public Communications the early 1970s while attending public school students, Syracuse residents and a community in Raleigh, N.C. The work of Washington Post board of directors. The success of the newspa- reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodard in- per relies on herself and her team of reporters spired him to study journalism at the Universi- to truly be connected to the community. They ty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During his aim to tell stories about the good things hap- 36-year career as a journalist, he has covered pening in the neighborhood as well as show- and written about hundreds of criminal trials ing the struggles residents face and how they and lawsuits, as well as reported on thousands work together to overcome them. Last summer, of criminal charges against state and federal Ashley partnered with the American Press In- criminal defendants. Through this journey, he stitute where, as a consultant, she assists API reports that he has acquired “more than a lay- with research and outreach to learn how media men’s knowledge of how the state and federal outlets are launching strategies to intentionally criminal justice system operates, and its fail- listen and engage with communities previously ures.” As a journalist, he believes it’s his job underserved or uncovered. Before joining Syr- to report on how this system affects the lives acuse University, she worked at The Citizen, of people and point out its errors to the people a daily newspaper based in Auburn, NY, as a (judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and copy editor and later as the paper’s feature edi- court officials) who operate the system. The tor. current social media era has demonstrated how the system’s successes and failures can domi- Kamala Kelkar nate public conversations about the guilt and Kamala Kelkar is a digital journalist at PBS innocence of criminal defendants. NewsHour Weekend where she covers issues of systematic injustices relating to human rights, Anat Kamm incarceration and public health. She was in- Anat Kamm was born and raised in Jerusa- vited to speak on a panel in January 2018 mod- lem, Israel, and dreamt about becoming a erated by former U.S. Attorney General Eric journalist since she was a child. She started Holder about the Electoral College system, as a at the education section in a local newspaper result of her coverage for PBS that linked elec- in her hometown at the age of 16, when she toral injustices with slave-era lawmaking. As a was still in high school. After her discharge California native, she has reported from a buri- from the IDF, she started working as a media al site in the U.S.’s northernmost Arctic city correspondent for Walla!, the biggest news to a cow shelter in India’s version of Silicon website in Israel. At the age of 23, she was Valley for major outlets including the Guard- put on trial for espionage, after being identi- ian, Al Jazeera English, The Sunday Times, and fied as the source of an article that exposed many other publications. allegedly illegal assassinations of Palestin- ians by Israel in the West Bank. Anat served George Lavender more than two years before her release due George Lavender is a Los Angeles-based crim- to good behavior. Incarceration, she writes, inal justice reporter for KCRW in Santa Moni- “is a life changing experience—but not a ca, Ca., and a multimedia instructor at the Uni- career-choice changing one.” She returned versity of Southern California. His stories have to journalism, covering culture and media as been heard on NPR, Marketplace, and 99% a freelancer. Anat has a BA in History and Invisible. He reported and hosted the KCRW Philosophy from Tel Aviv University and is podcast series “Off The Block” which featured stories of people affected by the county jail News & Observer in Raleigh, NC., where she system and “traced the path from city block has been since June, 2000, serving as its lead to cell block and back.” His reporting inside crime and public safety reporter for well over a San Quentin Prison won a regional Edward decade. Her focus has been on breaking news, R Murrow Award. He has also received three along with enterprise stories that offer analysis awards from the Society of Professional Jour- about criminal justice trends both locally and nalists, Northern California Chapter. He tweets across the state. Thomasi’s notable stories in- @GeorgeLavender clude reporting on an exponentially high ho- micide rate in Robeson County; an analysis of Madeleine List gun crimes in North Carolina following Presi- An infamous gang leader pleaded guilty to dent Obama’s call on Congress in 2013 to pass murder and was sentenced to life in prison a series of gun control laws, including back- on Madeleine’s first day as the court reporter ground checks on all gun sales and a ban on for the Cape Cod Times. Before that compel- assault weapons; and a 2015 story about state ling introduction to the court beat, she cov- legislative efforts to raise the juvenile age. She ered municipal government, the environment, reported and wrote the raise-the-age story in crime and breaking news at the Times for 2½ 2015 following her selection the year before as years. She won an award from the New Eng- a Juvenile Justice Fellow at the Center on Me- land Newspaper and Press Association for a dia, Crime and Justice at the John Jay College story about the victim of the gang-related mur- of Criminal Justice. The NC General Assembly der. She started at the Cape Cod Times as the this year voted to raise the juvenile age non- Dow Jones News Fund business reporting in- violent crimes to 18, effective Dec. 1, 2019. tern in June 2015 after completing a one-week residency at New York University. Madeleine Lauren McGaughy has also worked as a part-time video journal- Lauren McGaughy covers Texas politics and ist at Lower Cape TV for more than two years. policy for The Dallas Morning News, with a She earned a degree in journalism and Spanish focus on criminal justice and state courts. She from the University of Maryland and spent six is the newspaper’s lead reporter on Attorney months studying abroad in Argentina in 2014. General Ken Paxton, who faces multiple in- dictments for securities fraud, and the rights of Craig McCarthy lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Texans, Craig McCarthy is a reporter for NJ Advance including inmates in state and federal prisons. Media in Middlesex County where he covers McGaughy has worked to uncover graft and courts and crime while serving as a watchdog misuse of public funds in Texas agencies—ex- for local government and police. His work is posing the use of illegal severance packages published online on NJ.com and in The Star- for departing state workers—while crafting Ledger, the state’s largest newspaper. Craig narratives about the lives of everyday Texans, focuses on finding stories that go under- or from transgender men to the survivors of the un-reported in communities that bring to light Sutherland Springs, Tx., church shooting. She potential abuses of power or unethical prac- loves perusing PACER and reading state stat- tices. His reporting in Carteret, NJ led to the utes, and enjoys finding the unusual stories of arrest and indictment of a local police officer, those living behind bars. McGaughy previ- and laid the groundwork for an ambitious state- ously worked for The Houston Chronicle and wide look at similar police behavior. Craig was in Baton Rouge, where she covered Louisiana hired by NJ Advance Media 2015. He earned politics for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. his bachelor’s in English from Montclair State She lives and works in Austin, Texas. University, where he graduated in 2012 with minors in journalism and creative writing. He Sam Newhouse earned his master’s degree in communication Sam Newhouse has been reporting on legal and media from Rutgers in December, 2017. affairs and other newsworthy events since 2008. As news editor at Metro Philadelphia Thomasi McDonald since May, he directs city news coverage for a Thomasi McDonald is a staff writer with The 100,000+ circulation newspaper and website, writes articles, and directs a team of freelanc- Professional Journalists.Educated​ at Columbia ers. As a reporter with Metro since 2013, he University’s M.F.A. program in creative nonfic- has built a reputation for covering inequities tion, Kenneth is HEFAT-certified and conversa- in the justice system, explored allegations of tional in Iraqi Arabic and Kurdish (Sorani). police misconduct, formed close relations with Black Lives Matter activists while covering Caitlin Schmidt controversial police-involved shootings, and Caitlin Schmidt received her Bachelor’s degree developed citywide sources while writing mul- in journalism from The University of Arizona tiple articles daily. Prior to joining Metro, he in 2014 and went to work for The Arizona spent a year as a reporter for Star Newspaper Daily Star as a public safety reporter, covering in Philly’s working-class River Wards. He was police, fire and courts. In addition to covering a legal reporter for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle daily crime stories and tracking their progress from 2008 to 2012, where he covered civil and in court, she has focused on investigative re- criminal legal affairs in state and federal courts porting—producing both individual stories and authored a series of profiles of more than and series on issues that included police mis- 40 Brooklyn (NY) judges. conduct, mismanagement of federal funds by high-ranking sheriff officials, and lawsuits and Madeleine O’Neill court cases involving local law enforcement Madeleine O’Neill is the courts reporter for the agencies. She recently expanded her beat to Erie Times-News/GoErie.com in Erie, Penn- include legal issues surrounding The Univer- sylvania. In addition to covering criminal and sity of Arizona athletic department and wrote civil cases of interest in the federal and state several stories about court cases and lawsuits courts, she reports on other issues related to involving Title IX issues. Caitlin has won the criminal justice system, including the opi- seven state awards for investigative reporting, oid epidemic and prisoner re-entry programs. including the Arizona Press Club’s 2017 Don This summer, she worked with a group of Erie Bolles Award for Investigative Reporting and Times-News reporters to produce a nine-page two Arizona Newspaper Association Freedom special report on the opioid epidemic’s toll in of Information awards. Erie County, Pennsylvania. A native of the Erie area, Madeleine is in her second year of em- Zachary Siegel ployment at the Erie Times-News. She gradu- Zachary Siegel received his Master’s in jour- ated summa cum laude from the College of nalism from the University of Southern Cali- Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio, with a bachelor’s fornia in 2017. He specializes in public health, degree in political science. drug policy and criminal justice. His freelance reporting has appeared in Slate, New York Mag- Kenneth R. Rosen azine, Vice, The Daily Beast, Chicago Reader, Kenneth R. Rosen is a staff writer and senior Salon and elsewhere. He is currently a jour- news assistant at The New York Times. As an nalism fellow at Northeastern University Law independent magazine writer and investiga- School’s Health In Justice Initiative, where he tive journalist, his reporting from the Middle tracks the deployment of public health policy East, North Africa, Europe, and the United in response to America’s opioid epidemic. States has been published in The Atavist, The Zachary regularly contributes criminal justice Atlantic, FT Magazine and Foreign Affairs, and drug policy reporting to Harvard Law’s among other publications. His reporting on the Fair Punishment Project. criminal justice system has appeared in Vice and Guernica. He is a grantee with the Pulitzer Center Mallory Simon on Crisis Reporting; a visiting research scholar at Mallory Simon is a reporter and editor working the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journal- side-by-side with teams in the field to shape, ism; a Fulbright scholar in Berlin; a former Lo- write and produce unique and dynamic stories gan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for for all CNN digital, TV and social platforms. Global Good; a member of the Overseas Press She has spent the last 10 years at CNN.com Club, the Frontline Freelance Register, the Coali- and CNN digital covering breaking news and tion for Women in Journalism, and the Society of enterprise often at the intersection of social justice and politics. Mallory has written exten- Grace Toohey sively about gun violence in Chicago and the Grace Toohey is the lead criminal justice re- impact it has on children, edited stories on the porter at The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Loui- Opioid crisis in middle America, various tri- siana, where she covers breaking crime news, als, and recently focused on the intersection of local law enforcement agencies, and all aspects hate and justice in America. Mallory worked of the criminal justice system. For the last year at Court TV as a writer covering trials before at the newspaper, she’s covered a rise in do- coming to work at CNN. mestic violence, an unprecedented homicide rate, two serial killers, officer misconduct, an Irene Spezzamonte LSU hazing death, Alton Sterling’s ongoing le- Irene Spezzamonte is originally from Spinea, a gal process, authority abuse, efforts to amend little city next to Venice, Italy. She came to the police-community relationships and now the United States on Jan. 8th, 2014, after spend- state’s attempt to reform criminal justice. She ing nine months compiling the extensive pa- is meticulous with details, bold in her ques- perwork required and trying to learn English. tions, conscientious with sources and hungry She had to wait an entire year before being able to serve the people of her city and state. Origi- to take my first journalism class. In the Fall of nally from Maryland, Grace graduated with 2015, Irene went to work for the Queens Cou- honors from the University of Maryland’s jour- rier, a local newspaper in the Bayside neigh- nalism school in 2016 and went on to intern at borhood of New York, where she wrote crime The Philadelphia Inquirer, where an enterprise stories, news stories, real estate pieces, and bi- story on murder and clearance rates sparked ographies. In May of 2016, she graduated and her interest in criminal justice, and those com- started another internship at the Staten Island munities most affected. Advance, another local New York newspaper, where she explored how the opioid crisis is af- Monica Vendituoli fecting middle class communities in suburban Monica Vendituoli is the city reporter at the neighborhoods. Her internship ended in May Fayetteville Observer newspaper in Fayette- 2017 and she is now a student at CUNY Gradu- ville, North Carolina. A former night crime re- ate School of Journalism, specializing in data porter, she juggled covering car wrecks, fires, and interactive journalism with a concentration homicides and other mayhem with enterprise in urban reporting. crime stories and general assignment work one day a week. In February of 2017, Monica won Sean P. Sullivan an award for a profile of a local ministry dedi- S.P. Sullivan covers the state Attorney Gen- cated to serving adult entertainers. She also eral’s Office and criminal justice issues out contributed to the entry that won her newsroom of NJ Advance Media’s statehouse bureau in a North Carolina Press Association first-place Trenton. His work appears on NJ.com and in award for online breaking during Hurricane Advance Publications newspapers across the Matthew. She previously covered crime and state, including The Star-Ledger. Sean special- courts at a small daily newspaper in western izes in covering crime and corruption, with a North Carolina and held multiple internships in focus on breakdowns in the criminal justice Washington, D.C. She graduated with a degree system. His reporting has uncovered civil lib- in economics from Wheaton College in Mas- erties abuses by New Jersey state troopers; sachusetts. shone light on wrongful conviction cases; and led to state scrutiny of sexual abuse at New Jer- Conrad Wilson sey’s only women’s prison. He graduated from Conrad Wilson is a reporter at Oregon Public the University of Massachusetts with a degree Broadcasting, the NPR of Oregon, where he in journalism and anthropology and joined the covers criminal justice and legal affairs around company in 2011 after covering local news and the Pacific Northwest from Portland. For the politics at MassLive.com in western Massa- last year, he has chronicled the Trump admin- chusetts. istration’s efforts to crack down on illegal im- migration by working more closely with local law enforcement. During 2017, he also covered both trials stemming from the 2016-armed oc- cupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge. The coverage was chronicled in a podcast he co- produced called This Land Is Our Land. His work regularly airs on NPR programs like Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as regional NPR affiliates around the Pacific Northwest. Conrad has also worked as a reporter for Marketplace and Minnesota Public Radio and he was the news director at an NPR affiliate in Colorado. He holds a journalism de- gree from the University of Minnesota. 2018 John Jay / Quattrone Justice Fellows

Jaylyn Cook sippi in 2002, where she specializes in coverage Jaylyn Cook is the breaking news reporter for of children, crime causes and solutions, race and the Herald & Review in Decatur, Illinois. He was policing. As a result of a 2015 John Jay journal- also born and raised in Decatur, so he says that ism fellowship, Ladd kicked off the “Preventing the fact that he gets to work for his hometown Violence” series (jfp.ms/preventingviolence). newspaper will probably never stop being excit- Her work for the series won first-place awards ing to him. In 2015, Cook received a Bachelor from the Associated Press, the Association of Al- of Science degree in Journalism from Bradley ternative Newsmedia and the Society of Profes- University in Peoria, Illinois. The two experienc- sional Journalism (southeastern), which named es that sharpened his journalistic skills were an it “Best in Division.” Two grants from the Solu- internship at the Peoria Journal Star and a staff tions Journalism Network supported that work, position with the Illinois College Press Associa- and she is actively involved in the network. Ladd tion award-winning Bradley Scout student news- earned a master’s in 2001 from the Columbia paper. With the Herald & Review, Jaylyn covers School of Journalism. After graduation, she be- a myriad of local issues, including police and came a Packard Future of Children Fellow focus- fire, courts, and the Decatur Park District. Some ing on discriminatory effects of school discipline. major stories that he has worked on include how She freelances for The Guardian and NBC Think. first responders plan to combat the opioid crisis in Macon County, and a statistical breakdown of Eva Ruth Moravec Decatur’s problem intersections. A print journalist for a decade, Eva Ruth Moravec is the reporter, co-founder and executive director Jonathan Edwards of the Texas Justice Initiative, a nonprofit orga- Jonathan Edwards has been a criminal justice nization that aims to provide the public with reporter for nearly six years. He has worked as investigative journalism, research, data and in- the Norfolk, Virginia, cops-and-courts reporter formation on interactions between the public at The Virginian-Pilot for more than two years. and law enforcement. She also regularly cov- He was the cops reporter for the Lincoln (Neb.) ers breaking news for The Washington Post. Journal Star from 2012-2015. Before reporting Last year, while obtaining her Master’s degree, in Lincoln, he worked at several newspapers in Moravec reported on officer-involved shootings Northern California, where he grew up. Jonathan for a grant-funded series published in the San covered a variety of beats, including city govern- Antonio Express-News, Houston Chronicle and ment, county government, agriculture and the Austin American-Statesman, and her work was environment. He graduated from the University featured by the Associated Press and National of California, Berkeley, in 2006 with a bachelor’s Public Radio. Moravec started her journalism degree in English Literature and as a Phi Beta career at weekly newspapers before joining the Kappa scholar. He reports that he is the “dad” to Express-News, where she covered public safety Nola, a pitbull/boxer/Rhodesian ridgeback mix, and breaking news, and later courts, executions, who likes “hogging the bed, sleeping 18 hours a jails, cold cases, corruption, and government, in- day and licking faces.” cluding the 2013 Texas legislature. She reported on the 2015 Texas legislature for the Associated Donna Ladd Press and has freelanced for several local, state Journalist and editor Donna Ladd founded the and national publications. Jackson Free Press in her home state of Missis-

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Victoria Mckenzie Ted Gest Deputy Editor Washington Bureau Chief The Crime Report The Crime Report [email protected] [email protected] 212.484.1175 Katti Gray Ricardo Martinez Contributing Editor CMCJ Coordinator The Crime Report [email protected] [email protected] 646.557.4690 Megan Hadley Nancy Bilyeau Staff Writer Deputy Editor (Digital) The Crime Report The Crime Report [email protected] [email protected] 212-393-6334 212.484.1356 QUATTRONE CENTER The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School is a national research and policy hub created to catalyze long term structural improvements to the US criminal justice system. The Center takes an interdisciplinary, data-driven, scientific approach to identifying and analyzing the most crucial problems in the justice system, and proposing solutions that improve its fairness for the long term benefit of society. www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/quattronecenter

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 and dissertation fellowships. For more information, visit www.hfg.org

THE PUBLIC SAFETY PERFORMANCE PROJECT, PEW CENTER ON THE STATES launched in 2006 as an operating project of the Pew center on the States, the Public Safety Performance Project helps states advance fiscally sound, data-driven sentencing and corrections policies and practices that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control costs. For more information visit www.pewcenteronthestates.org

THE CRIME REPORT The Crime Report is published daily by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College, in collaboration with Criminal Justice Journalists. The nation’s most comprehensive one-stop, online source for criminal justice news and research, its staff of award-winning journalists and commentators cover the complex challenges of 21st-century justice in the U.S. and abroad. Endorsed by the American Library Association. Subscribe at www.thecrimereport.org

THE CENTER ON MEDIA, CRIME AND JUSTICE The Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay fosters quality, in-depth reporting on the criminal justice system. Operated by working journalists, it provides training and skills assistance to reporters at every level around the country, and nurtures the work of young and distinguished journalists on the new frontiers of the media industry. Over 850 reporters, editors and broadcasters have participated in center activities since 2007. Internship and work-study programs also provide opportunities for student journalists at John Jay and other educational institutions around New York to learn criminal justice reporting skills. In addition, the Center hosts “Criminal Justice Matters,” a monthly discussion program on CUNY-TV.

ABOUT JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE An international leader in educating for justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In teaching, scholarship and research, the college approaches justice as an applied art and science fairness, equality and the rule of law. For more information, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu