12TH ANNUAL HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM SYMPOSIUM ON CRIME IN AMERICA

THE STATE OF AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE (2017 AND BEYOND)

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

FEBRUARY 16TH AND 17TH, 2017 524 W. 59TH STREET NEW YORK, NY AGENDA

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 12:30 – 1:30pm LUNCH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 WORKSHOPS FOR FELLOWS & All Thursday panels take place in the Moot Court, All sessions in 9th floor conference room, INVITED GUESTS ONLY John Jay College, 6th Floor of the New Building By invitation only John Jay New Building 2:00 – 3:00pm 8:30 – 9:00am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 1:30 – 3:00pm 8:30 – 9:00am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST STORY LAB WORKSHOP 1: PANEL 3: BEYOND THE COVERING FORENSICS 9:00 – 9:15am “INCARCERATION NATION” 9:00 – 10:30am PRESENTERS WELCOME Joe Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma PANEL 5: JAILED OR BAILED— Assistant DA, Manhattan Stephen Handelman, Director, Center on Media, Department of Corrections RETHINKING PRETRIAL JUSTICE Patricia Bailey, Crime and Justice (CMCJ), John Jay College Lorenzo Brooks, former incarceree, NY State Cherise Fanno Burdeen, CEO, Pretrial Tania Simoncelli, Senior Advisor to the Director, Justice Institute The Broad Institute Jeremy Travis, President, John Jay College Carrie Pettus-Davis, Assistant Professor, Smart Decarceration Initiative Paul Heaton, Senior Fellow and Academic Director, Alice Isenberg, Deputy Assistant Director, 9:15 – 10:45am Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice FBI Laboratory Jordan Richardson, Senior Policy Analyst, PANEL 1: Koch Institute Meg Reiss, Executive Director, Institute for Innova- FACILITATOR DOES THE TRUMP ERA MEAN tion in Prosecution John Jay Marc Schindler, Executive Director, John Hollway, Director, Quattrone Institute for the THE END OF JUSTICE REFORM? Justice Policy Institute MODERATOR Fair Administration of Justice Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Al Blumstein, MODERATOR James Doyle, Counsel, Bassil & Budreau Heather Rice-Minus, Director of Government Marty Horn, Distinguished Lecturer in Corrections, 3:00 – 3:15pm BREAK Affairs, Prison Fellowship John Jay College Nick Turner, President & Director, Vera 10:30 – 10:45am BREAK 3:15 – 4:30pm Institute of Justice STORY LAB WORKSHOP 2: WHEN 3:00 – 3:15pm BREAK 10:45am – 12:30pm Bobby N. Vassar, retired Chief Counsel for LANGUAGE MATTERS (OR NOT) IN Crime for U.S. House Democrats PANEL 6: 3:15 – 5:00pm THE STATE(S) OF SENTENCING CRIMINAL JUSTICE REPORTING MODERATOR PANEL 4: Erek Barron, Maryland delegate, Maryland PRESENTERS Stephen Handelman, Director, John Jay CMCJ NEW DIRECTIONS IN 21ST Justice Reinvestment Task Force Jim Dwyer, The New York Times CENTURY POLICING Flozell Daniels Jr., Governor’s Designee, Louisiana The New Yorker Justice Reinvestment Task Force Sarah Stillman, 10:45 – 11:00am BREAK Tracie Keesee, Deputy Commissioner (Training), New York City Police Department Jeff Jesse, Member, Alaska Justice Commission FACILITATOR 11:00am – 12:30pm Chris Magnus, Chief of Police, Tucson Arizona John Maki, Executive Director, Illinois Criminal Adam Gelb, Director, Pew Public Safety PANEL 2: THE WAR AT HOME— Richard Rosenfeld, Professor, University of Justice Information Authority Performance Project WHAT DRIVES URBAN VIOLENCE? Missouri-St. Louis Bryan Stirling, Director of Corrections, South Carolina WHAT CAN STOP IT? Frank Straub, Director of Strategic Studdies, 4:30 – 6:00pm Police Foundation, former Spokane Police Chief David Hureau, Assistant Professor, MODERATOR FINAL WRAP (WITH FELLOWS) University of Albany-SUNY MODERATOR Freelance Journalist Mark Obbie, FACILITATORS David M. Kennedy, Director, National Joe Domanick, Associate Director, John Jay CMCJ Network for Safe Communities, John Jay Joe Domanick + CMCJ staff Volkan Topalli, Professor, Georgia State University 12:30 – 2:00pm WORKING LUNCH Lance Williams, Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University By invitation only

MODERATOR THE YEAR IN CRIME COVERAGE Moot Court, John Jay College, John Yang, Correspondent, PBS NewsHour 6th Floor of the New Building Ted Gest, President, Criminal Justice Journalists across the country. After earning a B.A. in Public lier books include: Cruel Justice: Three Strikes Administration from Miami University (Ohio) and the Politics of Crime in America’s Golden and a Masters in Criminal Justice from Indiana State; and To Protect and Serve: The LAPD’s University, she began her career with the Na- Century of War in the City of Dreams, (which tional Institute of Justice. Before joining PJI, she won the 1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best conducted field work with the Safer Foundation Non-Fiction Book.) He is a frequent contributor Speakers in Chicago and post-9/11 federal service with the to magazines and newspapers across the U.S., Department of Homeland Security. Since 2006, including over 50 criminal-justice related op-ed Ms. Burdeen has developed innovative strate- pieces for the Los Angeles Times. From 1999- gies to raise awareness of pretrial justice issues, 2012 he taught journalism at the School of Jour- amassed a broad constituency of criminal justice nalism at USC Annenberg’s School for Com- Joe M. Allbaugh July, 60-67; and Bailey, P. & Mecklenburg, S., stakeholder groups, and provided technical as- munication. Based in Los Angeles, Domanick Joe M. Allbaugh was appointed director of the “The Prosecutor’s Perspective on Eyewitness sistance and training on policy reforms. She has was the principal coordinator of the CMCJ’s Oklahoma Department of Corrections in July Experts in the Courtroom.” Expert Testimony extensive experience with strategic planning, police-media roundtables between 2009-2012, 2016. Previously, Director Allbaugh served as on the Psychology of Eyewitness Identification, initiative management, and change efforts across and co-author of a Department of Justice book- chief of staff to then-Texas Governor George Oxford University Press, 2009, 223-248. the criminal justice system. She serves as an issue let on police crisis management. Mr. Domanick W. Bush, as campaign manager of Bush- expert for legal and correctional professionals, holds graduate degrees in social science from Cheney 2000, and was eventually appointed by Alfred Blumstein national and community advocates, the media, Hunter College CUNY; in sociology/education President Bush as FEMA director in 2001. Mr. Alfred Blumstein, Ph.D., is the J. Erik Jonsson influencers and artists. from Columbia University; and in broadcast Allbaugh was also founder and president of his University Professor of Urban Systems and journalism from the USC’s Annenberg School own strategic and operational consulting com- Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon Uni- Flozell Daniels, Jr. of Journalism. Before becoming a journalist, he panies, The Allbaugh Company and Allbaugh versity. Prof. Blumstein’s research over the past Flozell Daniels, Jr., CEO & President of Foun- worked for 13 years as a public schoolteacher in International Group. In less than eight months 20 years has covered many aspects of criminal dation for Louisiana, is a public policy and the South Bronx and in Los Angeles. as director, he has identified and aggressively justice phenomena and policy, including crime community engagement strategist who focuses pursued initiatives to save the agency and Okla- measurement, criminal careers, sentencing, de- on building coalitions that successfully expand James Doyle homa taxpayers’ money, while finding safe al- terrence and incapacitation, prison populations, opportunity for traditionally marginalized com- James Doyle, of counsel to Bassil & Budreau ternatives in dealing with the overcrowded and demographic trends, juvenile violence, and munities. Mr. Flozell has led more than $50 mil- in Boston, Massachusetts, is a veteran litigator understaffed prisons. He has outlined an agenda drug-enforcement policy. A past president of lion of award-winning community investment and writer. The former head of the statewide to reform the agency while supporting its more the American Society of Criminologists and one strategies in areas like community development Public Defender Division of the Committee than 4,000 employees, and fix overcrowding of the country’s most renowned criminal justice finance, criminal justice reform, coastal/envi- for Public Counsel Services in Massachusetts, while keeping public safety at a premium. scholars, he has been one of the most popular ronmental justice, transit & housing equity and his experience includes constitutional litiga- speakers at John Jay/Guggenheim Symposia. equitable philanthropy. Prior to his appointment tion, numerous homicide trials and appeals, Patricia J. Bailey Among his most recent accomplishments, he at the Foundation, Mr. Flozell served in policy the representation of crime victims, and im- Patricia J. Bailey has been Assistant District headed the National Consortium on Violence leadership capacities at Tulane University and portant civil rights cases. He is the author of Attorney and Deputy General Counsel with Research (NCOVR), a multi-university initia- the Office of the Mayor, City of New Orleans. True Witness, (2005) the history of the colli- the New York County District Attorney’s Of- tive funded by the National Science Foundation Mr. Flozell served as a commissioner and co- sion between the science of memory and the fice since 1986. She was appointed Senior and headquartered at the Heinz College. chair of the Reentry Committee of the Mayor’s legal system and the co-author (with Elizabeth Supervising Attorney of the Special Projects Working Group on Criminal Justice Reform in Loftus) of Eyewitness Testimony: Civil and Bureau, and then Deputy Bureau Chief of the Lorenzo Brooks New Orleans that led to historic reductions in Criminal, the principal treatise for lawyers Special Projects Bureau in 2003. In 2010, she Lorenzo Brooks worked as an accountant for arrests and jail size; was involved in the pas- in eyewitness cases. He was the founding was named Deputy General Counsel to District the New York City Housing Authority before he sage of a citywide statute that ensures the In- Director of The Center For Modern Forensic Attorney Cy Vance. Md. Ms. Bailey sits on the was convicted of second-degree murder in 1986 dependent Police Monitor is truly independent Practice at the John Jay College of Criminal DAASNY Best Practices Committee and rep- and spent 30 years in prison. He was released in funding and powers; and, is Governor John Justice and its Arson Screening Project. Dur- resents the DA at the New York State Justice from the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Bel Edwards’ designee on the Louisiana Justice ing 2012-2014 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Task Force. She has lectured widely in the areas upstate New York on September 22, 2015. He Reinvestment Taskforce. National Institute of Justice, where he devised of mental health; effective use of experts; eye- was the subject of a Crime Report series on and launched NIJ’s Sentinel Events Initiative, witness testimony and identification methods. reentry: Life After Prison: Lorenzo’s Journey. Joe Domanick and authored the principal essay in the NIJ’s She received a J.D., summa cum laude, from http://thecrimereport.org/life-after-prison. Joe Domanick is Associate Director of the Cen- Special Report, Mending Justice: Sentinel Touro College, Jacob Fuchsberg Law Center; ter on Media, Crime and Justice and West Coast Event Reviews. He is an Advisor to the Ameri- and her B.A. in Sociology from SUNY Stony Cherise Fanno Burdeen Bureau Chief of The Crime Report. His latest can Law Institute’s Project on Policing and a Brook. Publications include: Mecklenburg, S., Ms. Burdeen is CEO of the Pretrial Justice Insti- book, Blue: The Los Angeles Police Depart- consultant to the National Institute of Justice. Bailey, P. & Larson, M. (2013) An Update on tute (PJI). She has spent over 20 years working ment and the Battle to Redeem American Polic- He received his B.A. from Trinity College, What Chiefs Need to Know: The Police Chief; to improve public safety policies and practices ing has received glowing national reviews. Ear- J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, and LL.M from Georgetown University as TCR’s Washington Bureau Chief. Mr. Gest cations of cost-benefit analysis to CJ programs; and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylva- Law Center, where he was an E. Barrett Pret- covered the White House, the Justice Depart- and evaluations of the CJ implications of public nia in 1969, and a MA in criminal justice from tyman/LEAA Fellow. ment, the Supreme Court, and legal/justice policies related to controlled substances. He has John Jay College. news during a 24-year career at U.S. News & also published numerous empirical studies of Jim Dwyer World Report. From September 2011 through tort law and insurance regulation. Dr. Heaton’s David Hureau Jim Dwyer, a native New Yorker, has spent March 2015, he served as public information research has been published in leading schol- David Hureau, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor most of his professional life covering the city as officer for the Washington, D.C., Attorney Gen- arly journals such as the Yale Law Journal, New at the School of Criminal Justice, University a reporter, columnist and author. He joined the eral. A veteran journalist, he began his career at England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Law at Albany-SUNY. He received his Ph.D. from New York Times in May 2001 after stints at the the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (his native city). A and Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Harvard University in Sociology and Social Daily News, New York Newsday and several pa- former coordinator of the Council of National and American Journal of Public Health. Prior to Policy in 2016, his M.P.P. from the Harvard pers in northern New Jersey. His work for The Journalism Organizations (2003-2006), Mr. joining Penn Law, Heaton served as the Director Kennedy School in 2006, and his B.A. from Times has included coverage of 9/11, the Iraq he has been cited by the National Council on of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice and Pro- Wesleyan University in 2001. Dr. Hureau is War, the 2004 presidential campaign and law Crime and Delinquency, and won an American fessor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. broadly interested in the relationship between enforcement surveillance of political activities. Bar Association Silver Gavel Award. He is the crime, punishment, and social inequality, with a He has written the About New York column author of Crime and Politics (Oxford University John F. Hollway particular research interest in understanding the since 2007. The winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Press, 2001). Mr. Gest is a graduate of Oberlin John F. Hollway is Associate Dean and Execu- nature of violent crime and its consequences. Prize for commentary and a co-recipient of the College and the Graduate School of Journalism tive Director of the Quattrone Center for the Recent research projects include an ethnogra- 1992 Pulitzer for breaking news, Mr. Dwyer is at Columbia University. He lives in Washing- Fair Administration of Justice at the University phy of a network of young men disproportion- also the author or co-author of six books. ton, DC with his wife. of Pennsylvania Law School. The Quattrone ately exposed to homicide, a mixed methods Center is a national research and policy hub cre- investigation of the market for illegal guns, and Adam Gelb Stephen Handelman ated to catalyze long-term structural improve- a policy evaluation of a major gang violence Adam Gelb is director of the Pew Charitable Stephen Handelman is Director of the Center ments to the US criminal justice system. Hol- intervention effort. He has served as an NBER- Trust’s Public Safety Performance Project, on Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ) at John lway is the author of Killing Time: An 18-Year NSF Crime Research Fellow, a Doctoral Fel- which helps states advance policies and practic- Jay College, and Executive Editor of The Crime Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom, which low at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, es in adult and juvenile sentencing and correc- Report. He also serves as host of “Criminal covered the case of John Thompson, a Loui- an IGERT-NSF Doctoral Fellow in the Multi- tions that protect public safety, hold offenders Justice Matters,” a monthly TV show at CU- siana Death Row inmate who was exonerated disciplinary Program in Inequality and Social accountable and control corrections costs. As NY-TV; and as consulting managing editor of and freed after 18 years in prison. Mr. Hollway Policy at Harvard, and a Research Fellow at the the project lead, Mr. Gelb oversees Pew’s as- Americas Quarterly, a journal on hemisphere graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Man- sistance to states seeking a greater public safety affairs published by The Americas Society. He in 1992, and received his JD with honors from agement at Harvard. return on their corrections spending. He also su- is an award-winning veteran journalist, author, the George Washington University Law School. pervises a vigorous research portfolio that high- columnist and foreign correspondent with over Alice R. Isenberg lights strategies for reducing recidivism while 30 years’ experience in reporting and editing Martin Horn Alice R. Isenberg, Ph.D., serves as the Deputy cutting costs. Mr. Gelb began his career as a (most recently TIME Magazine). A specialist in Martin Horn joined the John Jay faculty in the Assistant Director of the FBI Laboratory, man- reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, transnational and organized crime, he is the au- fall of 2009 as Distinguished Lecturer in the aging over 750 employees performing forensic and staffed the U.S. Senate Judiciary Commit- thor of three books, including Comrade Crimi- Department of Law & Police Science. Cur- science examinations in approximately 24 fo- tee during negotiations and final passage of the nal: Russia’s New Mafiya, and has been a con- rently, executive director of the New York State rensic disciplines. She began her career with the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement sultant to U.S. law enforcement agencies and Sentencing Commission, he served as Com- FBI in 1998 as a forensic mitochondrial DNA Act of 1994. He was policy director for the lieu- the United Nations, and has lectured and taught missioner of the New York City Department of examiner and later became the chief of the Mi- tenant governor of Maryland (1995-2000), and at universities. He holds an MPA from Harvard Correction and Department of Probation from tochondrial DNA Unit. Dr. Isenberg also served served as executive director of the Georgia Sen- Univirsity’s Kennedy School of Government. 2003 to 2009. As a result of his leadership, the as the Section Chief of the Biometrics Analy- tencing Commission from 2001 to 2003. Before City dramatically changed the way the family sis Section in the FBI Laboratory, supervising joining Pew, he was vice president for programs Paul Heaton court system responds to juvenile delinquents, the FBI’s DNA and Latent Print programs. As at the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse. He Paul Heaton, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow and Aca- replacing destructive institutionalization with Section Chief, she managed the elimination graduated from the University of Virginia, and demic Director of the Quattrone Center for the community based supervision demonstrated of an offender DNA backlog of over 300,000 holds a Master’s from Harvard University’s Fair Administration of Justice at the University to obtain better outcomes. He was a member samples and a casework DNA backlog involv- Kennedy School of Government. of Pennsylvania Law School. One of the na- of then-Governor Tom Ridge’s Senior Staff ing over 2700 criminal cases. Dr. Isenberg has tion’s leading economists looking at the crimi- as Secretary of Administration for the State of authored a variety of scientific publications and Ted Gest nal justice system, much of his research aims to Pennsylvania, as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of presentations; and has testified as an expert wit- Ted Gest is president of Criminal Justice Jour- apply methodological insights from economics Corrections (1995-2000), and as executive di- ness several times across her career as a foren- nalists, the nation’s only association of criminal to inform issues in legal and criminal justice rector and chief operating officer for the New sic scientist. justice reporters, which he co-founded in 1997. policy. Dr. Heaton’s criminal justice work spans York State Division of Parole. He began his ca- He oversees the daily news digest “Crime and a wide range of areas, including measurement of reer as a New York State Parole Officer in 1969. Justice News” for The Crime Report, and serves impacts of criminal justice interventions; appli- He earned a BA in government from Franklin Jeff Jessee David M. Kennedy attended the “Senior Executives in State & Lo- settings. Building on her social work practice Jeff Jessee is the Legislative Liaison for the David M. Kennedy is director of the National cal Government” program at the Harvard Ken- experience, Pettus-Davis focuses her research Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority (the Network for Safe Communities, a project of nedy School. on the development and implementation of in- Trust) and serves as a Commissioner on Alas- John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which novative services and policies impacting adults ka’s Criminal Justice Commission. The Trust, supports cities implementing strategic interven- John Maki in the criminal justice system and their loved a federally created state corporation, operates tions to reduce violence, minimize arrest and John Maki is the Executive Director of the Il- ones. She is helping to lead public-private- much like a private foundation and uses its incarceration, and strengthen relationships be- linois Criminal Justice Information Authority, academic partnerships committed to accelerat- resources to ensure that Alaska has a compre- tween law enforcement and communities. His the state’s criminal justice research and grant- ing the research-to practice-to policy engage- hensive integrated mental health program. Mr. work has won two Ford Foundation Innovations making agency. Prior to his appointment to the ment feedback loop. Pettus-Davis completed Jessee began his career in 1980 as the VISTA in Government awards, two Webber Seavey Authority in January 2015, Mr. Maki was the her doctorate in social work at the University attorney for Alaska’s protection and advocacy Awards from the International Association of Executive Director of the John Howard Asso- of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a agency for people with disabilities. In 1985, Chiefs of Police, and the Herman Goldstein In- ciation of Illinois, the state’s only nonpartisan Masters of Social Work Administration and he represented a subclass in litigation over the ternational Award for Problem-Oriented Polic- prison watchdog and criminal justice reform BAs in social work and psychology from the state’s mismanagement of the Alaska mental ing. He was awarded the 2011 Hatfield Scholar organization — a winner of the MacArthur University of Kansas. health land trust. After approval of the settle- Award for scholarship in the public interest. Mr. Foundation’s Award for Creative and Effective ment in 1995, he became the Chief Executive Kennedy is the author of Deterrence and Crime Institutions. Mr. Maki has a law degree from the Meg Reiss Officer of the Trust. In addition to serving as Prevention: Reconsidering the Prospect of Loyola University Chicago, a Master’s Degree Meg Reiss was appointed the first Executive a leader and advocate for Trust beneficiaries, Sanction, co-author of Beyond 911: A New Era from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Director of the Institute for Innovation in Pros- he is responsible for leveraging Trust income for Policing, and has published a wide range Whittier College. ecution in April 2016 at John Jay College. A and developing partnerships to enhance men- of articles on gang violence, drug markets, do- former Brooklyn and Nassau County prosecu- tal health services. The Trust has funded ex- mestic violence, firearms trafficking, deterrence Mark Obbie tor with more than two decades of high-profile tensively in the area of criminal justice reform theory, and other public safety issues. His lat- Mark Obbie is a freelance journalist focusing on experience in the courtroom and in efforts to and enhancement including therapeutic courts, est book, Don’t Shoot, One Man, a Street Fel- criminal justice policy. His work has appeared reform the criminal justice system, Ms. Reiss crisis Intervention team training and recidivism lowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City in The New York Times, Slate, Pacific Standard, began her legal career in New York City as an reduction programs. America, was published by Bloomsbury in Sep- The Trace, TakePart, Inc., and O, The Oprah assistant district attorney in the Brooklyn Dis- tember 2011. For updates, follow Mr. Kennedy Magazine. Obbie was a 2014-15 Soros Justice trict Attorney’s Office. She later served in the Tracie L. Keesee on Twitter: @DavidKennedyNYC. Media Fellow, producing a series of longform Nassau County District Attorney’s Office as Tracie L. Keesee, Ph.D. is the newly appointed narratives for Slate exploring the crime-victim the chief of staff, where she was number two Deputy Commissioner of Training for the New Christopher Magnus perspective on criminal justice reform. He is the to the former District Attorney. Ms. Reiss has York City Police Department. Previously, she Christopher Magnus, chief of the Tucson Po- former executive editor of The American Law- also served as a deputy monitor on the Kroll was the Project Director of the National Initia- lice Department, started his public safety ca- yer and editor/publisher of Texas Lawyer. He is Inc. team that supervised the Los Angeles Po- tive for Building Community Trust and Justice, reer in 1979 as a dispatcher with the City of also a former associate professor of magazine lice Department’s compliance with a landmark a Department of Justice project led by the Na- Lansing. In 1999, Chief Magnus became the journalism at Syracuse University’s S.I. New- federal consent decree, and more recently, she tional Network for Safe Communities at John police chief in Fargo, North Dakota, where he house School of Public Communications and served as member of a five-member indepen- Jay College. She is also co-founder of the Cen- played a key role in implementing the first two- helped found SU’s Institute for the Study of dent ethics panel overseeing London’s Metro- ter for Policing Equity, which promotes police state regional dispatch system in the nation, a the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media. He is a politan Police Service. A partnership between transparency and accountability. Dr. Keesee is forensic children’s interview center, and a refu- member of the American Society of Journalists the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and a retired 25-year police veteran, who rose to gee liaison program for new immigrants and and Authors, Investigative Reporters and Edi- the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the the rank of Division Chief in the Denver Police refugees. In 2006, he was selected as police tors, and Criminal Justice Journalists. He is a IIP operates through the College’s National Department after serving as a District Com- chief for Richmond, California where, during frequent contributor to The Crime Report. Network for Safe Communities (NNSC). mander; Chief of the Research, Training, and his 10-year tenure, he significantly strength- Technology Division; and Captain of the Spe- ened ties between the community and its po- Carrie Pettus-Davis Heather Rice-Minus cial Operations Division. Dr. Keesee holds a lice force. As Tucson chief, he is continuing his Carrie Pettus-Davis assistant professor at the Heather Rice-Minus serves as director of gov- BA in Political Science from Metropolitan State commitment to improve services for victims of Brown School at Washington University since ernment affairs at Prison Fellowship, the na- College, an MA in Criminal Justice from the domestic and sexual violence, addressing com- 2011, is founding director of the Institute for tion’s largest outreach to prisoners, former University of Colorado at Denver, and a Ph.D. munity corrections issues, focusing on how Advancing Justice Research and Innovation, prisoners and their families. As leader of Prison in Intercultural Communications from the Uni- police respond to people suffering with men- and co-founder and co-director of the Smart Fellowship’s policy staff, Ms. Rice-Minus di- versity of Denver. She is also a graduate of the tal illness, and supporting a myriad of youth Decarceration Initiative. Pettus-Davis oversees rects lobbying, research and legislative cam- 203rd Class of the FBI National Academy. Dr. programs and activities. In 2015, Chief Mag- research to better understand factors and dis- paigns on pivotal criminal justice issues at the Keesee has published numerous articles across nus testified before the President’s Task Force seminate practices that will dramatically reduce state and federal levels. She co-authored Prison a variety of collected anthologies and peer-re- on 21st Century Policing. Chief Magnus has a incarceration rates. Prior to academia, she spent Fellowship’s Outrageous Justice book and viewed scientific journals. Master’s in Labor Relations and a BA in Crimi- more than a decade designing and delivering church small group curriculum. She has also nal Justice from Michigan State University. He programs in criminal justice and community contributed to stories about criminal justice reform in outlets including Slate, CBN News, Tania Simoncelli Frank Straub British Journal of Criminology, Punishment & PBS’ Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, and World Tania Simoncelli is Senior Advisor to the Di- Frank Straub, Ph.D., a 30-year veteran of law Society, and Criminal Justice & Behavior. He magazine. Ms. Rice-Minus is also personally rector of the Broad Institute of MIT and Har- enforcement, currently serves as the Director received his Ph.D, in Experimental Social Psy- vested in justice reform as someone who has vard. Previously, she served for two years as of Strategic Studies for the Police Foundation. chology from Tulane University in 1998 both been a victim of crime and walked along- Assistant Director for Forensic Science and Dr. Straub last served as the Chief of the Spo- side a family member during his incarceration. Biomedical Innovation in the White House Of- kane Police Department, where he received Jeremy Travis A native of Virginia, she resides in Washington, fice of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), national recognition for major reforms in com- Jeremy Travis is president of John Jay College DC with her husband and daughter. Prior to her where she led several multi-agency initiatives munity policing programs and significant crime of Criminal Justice at the City University of tenure at Prison Fellowship, she managed advo- to strengthen the forensic sciences and played reductions achieved during his tenure. He pre- New York. Prior to his appointment, he served cacy efforts on behalf of the National Religious a lead role in developing and launching the viously served as Director of Public Safety for as a Senior Fellow in the Urban Institute’s Jus- Campaign Against Torture. She is a graduate of President’s Precision Medicine Initiative. From the City of Indianapolis, and as Public Safety tice Policy Center, where he launched a national George Mason University School of Law and 2010–2013, Ms. Simoncelli served as Senior Commissioner for the City of White Plains, research program focused on prisoner reentry Colorado State University, and a member of the Advisor in the Office of the Commissioner of New York. During his tenure in Indianapolis, into society. From 1994-2000, President Tra- Virginia State Bar. the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and homicides declined to the lowest level in 20 vis directed the National Institute of Justice, from 2003–2010, she worked as the first Sci- years. In White Plains, he developed the first the research arm of the U.S. Department of Richard Rosenfeld ence Advisor to the American Civil Liberties police-community mental health response team Justice. Prior to his service in Washington, Richard Rosenfeld, Ph.D. is the Thomas Jeffer- Union (ACLU), where she guided the organiza- in Westchester County. Earlier in his career, he he was Deputy Commissioner for Legal Mat- son Professor of Criminology and Criminal Jus- tion’s responses to cutting-edge developments was Deputy Commissioner of Training for the ters for the New York City Police Department tice at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. He in science and technology and spearheaded the New York City Police Department. He holds a (1990-1994), a Special Advisor to New York has published widely on crime trends, crime sta- ACLU’s successful Supreme Court challenge Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, from the City Univer- City Mayor Edward I. Koch (1986-89), and tistics, and criminal justice policy. Dr. Rosenfeld to the patenting human genes. In 2013, she was sity of New York’s Graduate Center, an M.A. in Special Counsel to the Police Commissioner of is a Fellow and former President of the Ameri- named by Nature as one of “ten people who Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of the NYPD (1984-86). can Society of Criminology. He currently serves mattered this year” for her work in overturn- Criminal Justice, and a BA in Psychology from on the Science Advisory Board of the Office of ing gene patents. Ms. Simoncelli holds a BA St. John’s University. He co-authored a book Nicholas Turner Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. in Biology & Society from Cornell University on performance-based police management and Nicholas Turner joined the Vera Institute of and an M.S. in Energy and Resources from the published several articles regarding community Justice as its fifth president in 2013. Under his Marc Schindler University of California, Berkeley. policing, police reform, and jail management. leadership, Vera has identified core priorities of Marc Schindler is Executive Director of the ending the misuse of jails, transforming condi- Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a national re- Sarah Stillman Volkan Topalli tions of confinement, and ensuring that justice search and policy organization dedicated to re- Sarah Stillman is a staff writer for The New Volkan Topalli, Ph.D., is a Professor of Crimi- systems more effectively serve America’s grow- ducing the use of incarceration in the juvenile Yorker and the director of the Global Migration nal Justice at Georgia State University. Before ing minority communities. Mr. Turner came to and criminal justice systems. He previously Program at Columbia University’s Graduate arriving at GSU in 2000, he completed a Na- Vera from the Rockefeller Foundation, where worked at the DC Department of Youth Reha- School of Journalism. She has written on topics tional Science Foundation research fellowship he was a managing director. Prior to his work bilitation Services (DYRS), where he served as ranging from civil asset forfeiture to the return through the National Consortium on Violence with Vera, he was an associate in the litigation General Counsel, Chief of Staff, and Interim of debtors prisons, and from Mexico’s drug Research. He is the co-Chair of the Crime & department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Director. Prior to DYRS, Mr. Schindler served cartels to Bangladesh’s garment factories. Her Violence Prevention Policy Initiative, housed Garrison and a judicial clerk for the Honorable as a Partner with Venture Philanthropy Partners, coverage of human trafficking on U.S. military at the Andrew Young School of Policy Stud- Jack B. Weinstein, Senior United States District a philanthropic investment organization, and as bases in Iraq and Afghanistan won the National ies. His scholarly research addresses violence Judge in Brooklyn. He is a member of the Inde- a Staff Attorney with the Youth Law Center Magazine Award, the Michael Kelly Award for in urban settings, with a particular focus on the pendent Commission on New York City Crimi- (YLC), a national civil rights law firm dedi- the “fearless pursuit and expression of truth,” decision-making of street criminals. To pursue nal Justice and Incarceration Reform and the cated to protecting the rights of young people in and the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journal- these interests he employs a multi-method ap- Advisory Board to New York City’s Children’s juvenile justice and child welfare systems na- ism, among other prizes. Her work on young proach that includes experimental, quantitative, Cabinet, and has served on the boards of Na- tionwide. He started his legal career represent- people killed as confidential informants in the and qualitative (interview-based) methodolo- tional Council on Crime and Delinquency, Liv- ing children in Baltimore’s juvenile court. Mr. war on drugs received a George Polk Award, gies with active, non-institutionalized hardcore ing Cities, and the Center for Working Families. Schindler is a graduate of Yale University and and she has also covered other facets of the jus- street offenders (robbers, carjackers, drug deal- He received his BA and JD from Yale. the University of Maryland School of Law. Two tice system, including the juvenile sex offender ers). His research has been supported by such lesser known facts: He managed a NYC blues registry and the privatization of probation. She agencies as the National Science Foundation, Bobby N. Vassar bar after college and is the only non-Spanish is currently covering the Syrian refugee crisis, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, The Bobby N. Vassar is a retired Chief Counsel speaking member of his immediate family! domestic immigration, and the criminal justice Centers for Disease Control, and the National for Crime for U.S. House Democrats, hav- reform movement. She was a 2016 MacArthur Institute of Justice. He is the co-editor of Crimi- ing served in the position from 1999 to 2013. fellow. In 2015, she was selected as a John Jay/ nological Theory: Readings and Retrospectives Earlier, Mr. Vassar served for 5 years as Senior Solutions Journalism Network Violence Re- and the author of peer-reviewed research in such Counsel and Legislative Director to Congress- porting Fellow. outlets as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, The man Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, and served as Chairman of the Virginia Parole Board (1982- NBC team that reported on “In Plain Sight: Pov- 87) and as Deputy and Acting Secretary for erty in America,” a 2013 George Foster Peabody Health and Human Resources in Virginia Award recipient, and his reporting in April 2011 (1990-94). From 1995-2001, he was a member on tornado devastation in Alabama was includ- of the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Guide- ed in an “NBC Nightly News” broadcast that lines Commission, and in 2015, served on Gov. received an Edward R. Murrow Award for “Best McAuliffe’s Commission on Parole Review. He Newscast.” Prior to joining NBC, he worked 2017 Guggenheim Fellows currently is Vice Chairman of the Virginia State for ABC News, based in Washington, where he Board of Corrections, and Chairman of the Vir- was weekend White House correspondent, and ginia CARES Board which assists offenders in in Jerusalem, where he served as Middle East returning successfully to their community. He correspondent. He has been part of teams that also is a member of the Boards of Directors for have been honored with an Emmy, two Peabody Chandra Bozelko for reporting on projects that advance in custody The Sentencing Project, the Justice Policy Insti- Awards and to Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Uni- Chandra Bozelko is a freelance writer. A former education and rehabilitation, promote environ- tute and the National Prevention Science Coali- versity Awards. Mr. Yang’s career also includes incarceree, her work has appeared in the New mental sustainability, and that expand addiction tion, all of which advocate for evidence-based time at The Washington Post, Wall Street Jour- York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and mental health treatment. Lindsey graduated criminal justice reforms at the federal, state and nal, TIME, and The Boston Globe. He is a cum the Washington Post, Quartz, the Guardian, the Cum Laude from Loras College in Dubuque, local levels. Mr. Vassar is a graduate of Norfolk laude graduate of Wesleyan University. Huffington Post, and many other publications. Iowa, with a BA in communication, and com- State University and the University of Virginia While she was incarcerated, Chandra published pleted exploratory sociology courses at Metro- School of law, with Bar membership in Virginia a book of poetry, Up the River: An Anthology, politan State University of Denver. She earned and the District of Columbia. and started the first regular column with a byline a certificate from the American College of Jour- from an incarcerated writer which was called nalism and has been published in numerous Lance Williams Prison Diaries. Now that she has been released, print and online publications. She participated in Lance Williams, Ph.D., is an Associate Profes- Prison Diaries continues as a blog that has been a 2008 Guatemalan intercultural program exam- sor and former Assistant Director of the his- honored by the Webby Awards and won the Na- ining the country’s complex economic, political toric Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City tional Society of Newspaper Columnists annual and social landscape, and is currently continu- Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. His contest. ing her studies through University of California fields of special interest include the mass me- Berkeley Extension. dia’s influence on adolescent behaviors and cul- Leonard E. Colvin ture, street organizations, and youth violence. Leonard E. Colvin was born and raised in Stutt- Rosa Flores Dr. Williams served as the National Coordina- gart, Arkansas. He attended the city’s Jim Crow Rosa Flores is a CNN correspondent based in tor of the African American Male Initiative for schools system to the sixth grade, until junior Chicago, covering domestic and international the President’s Roundtable. He is the co-author high when desegregation was imposed. After news. Rosa covered Pope Francis from the pa- of Culture and Perceptions of Violence Related graduating from high school in 1976, he at- pal plane, during his visit to the United States, Behaviors Among Adolescents and co-author of tended the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Cuba and Mexico. She also traveled to Ecuador, The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, majoring in Theater Arts and Mass Communica- Bolivia and Paraguay to cover Francis’ visit to Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang. His tions. In the fall of his senior year he was hired as South America. She also covers international forthcoming book, The Disciples, chronicles a reporter for the Pine Bluff Commercial, where breaking news stories including the explosion the history and intersection of three of Chica- he interned the previous summer, as a Regional of a Mexico City maternity hospital, the deten- go’s most notorious street gangs. His expertise Reporter. He then entered the U.S. Navy served tion of five Syrians in Honduras traveling with has been frequently aired and published by nu- at the Air Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and fake passports, and the influx of unaccompanied merous international, national, and local media later aboard the USS Truett in Norfolk, Virginia. minors across the US southern border. In 2014, outlets such as PBS News Hour, Al Jazeera, After leaving service, he was hired as the Chief she spent nearly three weeks in Mexico’s south- French TV Canal, CNN, BET, HBO, Ebony & Reporter of the New Journal and Guide News- ern state of Guerrero covering the disappearance Jet Magazine, and a number of other cable, tele- paper, a position he has held since 1987. of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa. Her vision, radio and print media. coverage landed her the National Association Lindsey Coulter of Hispanic Journalists’ Large Market Televi- John Yang Lindsey Coulter is editor of School Construc- sion Hard News Award. Rosa joined CNN in John Yang has been a general assignment cor- tion News and a staff reporter for Correctional 2013. She earned BAs in broadcast journalism respondent for the PBS NewsHour since Febru- News. In addition to her editorial responsibili- and business administration, and a Master’s de- ary 2016. Mr. Yang previously was a Chicago- ties, she reports weekly on breaking news, pol- gree in accounting at the University of Texas at based correspondent for NBC News, reporting icy and trends Across the U.S. correctional and Austin. for “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” justice spectrum, focusing on correctional facil- “Today,” and MSNBC. Mr. Yang was part of an ity design and construction. She has a passion Katie Honan tice reform and the Civil Rights Movement. ing methods to cover criminal justice and pris- criminal justice system over low-level offenses. Katie Honan is a reporter for DNAinfo New Lottie was a 2015 National Health Journalism ons in Minnesota. His most recent project was Her work has been recognized with awards from York. Her community-focused coverage in- Fellow with the Center for Health Journalism at a year-long investigation into the heavy use of organizations such as the Sidney Hillman Foun- cludes analyzing crime data and reporting on the University of Southern California at Annen- solitary confinement in the state’s prisons and dation, Deadline Club and the Newswomen’s the local issues that matter the most to her read- berg where she examined the impact of father- how Minnesota fell behind the curve of national Club of New York. She has taught investigative ers—from gang violence in Jackson Heights, to absence on the mental health of Black boys. Her reform. The four-part series exposed how pris- reporting as an adjunct professor at The New large drug busts in in Far Rockaway, to an up- recent work on race relations has led her to do oners with severe mental illnesses spiral into School. tick in domestic violence throughout immigrant several podcasts on policing for USAToday.com. psychosis after years in solitary. Andy grew up communities in Elmhurst and Corona. Before in Detroit and Minneapolis and attended jour- Jeff Truesdell joining DNAinfo, she worked at NBC 4 New Kimbriell Kelly nalism school at the University of Minnesota- Jeff Truesdell is a Midwest-based staff writer York as the station’s first social media editor, Kimbriell Kelly is a reporter with the Investiga- Twin Cities (BA) and University of California- for People magazine covering crime and hu- where she was part of team coverage that won tive Unit at The Washington Post and was part of Berkeley (Masters). He started covering Minne- man interest. He’s reported on mass shootings three Emmy awards and an Edward R. Murrow the newspaper’s team that won the 2016 Pulit- apolis police for the Minnesota Daily, the cam- at Pulse nightclub in Orlando; Virginia Tech; a award for coverage of the Empire State Build- zer Prize for National reporting for documenting pus newspaper at the University of Minnesota, county office in San Bernardino, California; a ing Shooting and Hurricane Sandy. Earlier, she the number of fatal officer-involved shootings. and continued writing about criminal justice for military base in Chattanooga, Tennessee; a com- worked in film and television production, hold- Her 2016 series on housing disparities in Prince City Pages, The Seattle Times, MinnPost and munity college in Oregon, and too many others. ing every job with the word “assistant” in the George’s County won a Salute to Excellence now the Star Tribune. His reports are part of the ongoing People series title. Katie is a graduate of St. John’s University Award from the National Association of Black “Seeking Solutions to Gun Violence,” which and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Journalists. Prior to joining the Post, Kelly was Tricia L. Nadolny along with a recurring Call to Action — sharing an investigative reporter and editor/publisher of Tricia L. Nadolny is a reporter at the Philadel- contacts for all 535 members of Congress — led Sandy Hausman The Chicago Reporter, an investigative maga- phia Inquirer, where she covers City Hall. Pre- The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence to Sandy Hausman is the Charlottesville bureau zine focusing on issues of race and poverty. Kel- viously, she covered crime and state and federal honor the magazine. He also is executive pro- chief for Virginia Public Radio, a statewide ly’s work at the Reporter sparked a lawsuit that courts for the Concord Monitor in New Hamp- ducer of the documentary film For Ahkeem, out network of stations. In that capacity, she cov- resulted in the nation’s largest fair lending settle- shire. She has received statewide and national in 2017, which incorporates the shooting by ers the University of Virginia, environmental ment, an $8.7 billion settlement with Country- honors for her in-depth reporting, including police of an unarmed black teen and its after- issues, criminal justice and healthcare reform. wide Financial and a $335 million discrimina- for a series that uncovered widespread short- math in Ferguson, Missouri, near his St. Louis Before joining VPR, Sandy was a news anchor tory housing settlement between Countrywide comings at the Department of Veterans Affairs hometown. and reporter for WBBM radio (CBS), WKQX and the U.S. Department of Justice. branch in Philadelphia. In 2016 she was named radio (NBC) and ABC TV in Chicago. She has a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Spencer Woodman won numerous awards from the Society of Pro- Daryl Khan Journalists in the national reporting category for Spencer Woodman is a New York-based free- fessional Journalists, the Radio, Television and Daryl Khan is the New York bureau chief of a story chronicling the deadly trend of dresser lance reporter whose work focuses on issues Digital News Association, the Society of Envi- the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, the tip-overs. Tricia’s ongoing coverage of tip-overs relating to labor relations, criminal justice and ronmental Journalists and the Associated Press. only national publication dedicated to covering involving Ikea furniture prompted the introduc- voting rights. Spencer has written for The Na- She has also taken part in several professional the juvenile justice system. He writes magazine- tion of federal legislation that would enforce a tion, The Guardian, The Nation Institute’s In- enrichment programs: the Benton Broadcast length investigative pieces, features and over- mandatory safety standard on the furniture in- vestigative Fund, VICE, The New Republic, Fellowship at the University of Chicago, the sees a freelance staff. For nearly two decades, dustry. Amid increased pressure to address the Slate, and The Verge. He has received the Sid- East-West Fellowship at the University of Ha- Daryl has covered criminal justice and law en- threat, Ikea in June recalled 29 million dressers, ney Hillman prize for his reporting on Amazon waii and the International Reporting Project. forcement from the streets where policy is prac- among the largest recalls in U.S. history. warehouse workers and the Media Consortium’s She holds a master’s degree from the University ticed and reflected in people’s lives. He began Impact award for reporting on enforcement of of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from Cor- his career in New York City covering courts, Sarah Ryley minimum wage laws. His most recent long-term nell University. crime, the war on terror, and incarceration as Sarah Ryley is an investigative journalist at project involving criminal justice focused on a reporter for the Boston Globe, The New York the New York Daily News. Her recent work pretrial detention in Cook County, Illinois, and Lottie Joiner Times and New York Newsday. He teaches at the has primarily focused on criminal justice and was published last month in the Chicago Reader Lottie Joiner is an award-winning journalist CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and re- civil enforcement. Her most recent investiga- in partnership with The Nation Institute’s Inves- who covers race, social justice, civil rights and cently finished his first feature-length documen- tion with ProPublica into the New York Police tigative Fund. culture. As senior editor of The Crisis magazine, tary, a film that solved an 80-year-old lynching Department’s use of the nuisance abatement her work focuses on issues that impact minori- while exposing the racist legacy of a notorious law prompted City Council to introduce the ties, women and underserved communities. She reform school in Florida’s panhandle. Nuisance Abatement Fairness Act, a package of has written for a number of publications in- 13 bills that would add more protections for the cluding The Washington Post, USA Today, The Andy Mannix accused. Her work on racial disparities in “bro- Daily Beast, Time.com, Essence magazine and Andy Mannix is an investigative journalist for ken windows” policing led to the passage of the TheAtlantic.com, contributing stories on health the Minneapolis Star Tribune who uses a combi- Criminal Justice Reform Act, which will spare disparities, education inequality, criminal jus- nation of data-analysis and shoe-leather report- an estimated 100,000 people a year from the that, she was a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Afro American Newspapers, Chesapeake Family Magazine, and The Pitts- burg Post Review, among other places. Lisa at- tended Towson University and has spent most of her writing life focused on Baltimore City. Quattrone Fellows Lisa thinks that a good story can draw in even the most reluctant reader. She also believes that the ability to tell other people’s stories is a privi- lege, and strives to be fair, well-reasoned, and thought provoking. Anita Chabria stories on one of the paper’s busiest and high- Anita Chabria is a senior writer for The Sacra- est-profile beats, including some of the highest mento Bee, the city newspaper for California’s profile national stories of the past year, such capital. She covers local politics, social justice as the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling by po- and public safety, with an emphasis on the lice, the murders of three law enforcement of- places the three topics intersect. Prior to The ficers weeks later and widespread flooding that Bee, Anita was a freelance journalist for more killed 13 and displaced thousands. Bryn is a than 15 years, covering diverse beats through- 2011 graduate of Kenyon College in Ohio with out the state. She covered state politics for The degrees in history and modern languages. A Guardian U.S. and Voice of San Diego, wrote former Fulbright teaching fellow in Germany, features and news for magazines including The Bryn contributed writing for The American In- Los Angeles Times Magazine, Premiere Maga- terest magazine in Washington, D.C. and spent zine and Sactown, wrote opinion pieces for The two years as a reporter for The Commonwealth Bee and covered the original Silicon Valley newspaper in Greenwood, Mississippi prior to tech boom for The Industry Standard. Anita joining The Advocate. has also worked as a travel editor and served as the Los Angeles bureau chief for PR Week, Hella Winston a trade covering the communications industry. Hella Winston is a sociologist and freelance She holds a Master of Journalism from the investigative journalist, who has held post- University of California at Berkeley Graduate doctoral research fellowships at Princeton, School of Journalism. Johns Hopkins and UMass Amherst. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Schuster In- Jessica Pishko stitute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis Jessica Pishko is a criminal justice reporter in University. She is also the author of two books: San Francisco. She received a JD from Har- Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels vard Law School and an MFA from Columbia (Beacon: 2005) and, with Katherine Newman, University. As a law student and lawyer, she Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the worked on death penalty cases and domestic 21st Century (Metropolitan: 2016). Her work, violence cases pro bono. Her writing has been which includes years of reporting on the Brook- featured in publications such as The Nation, lyn District Attorney’s handling of sex crimes Esquire, Rolling Stone, Pacific Standard, San committed within the borough’s Orthodox Jew- Francisco Magazine, and others. She also has ish community, has been featured in the New forthcoming work in Harper’s and New York York Jewish Week, City Limits, the Daily Beast, Times Magazine. She has received financial The Crime Report, Vice, the Daily News and on support from The Nation Institute, and her work WNYC, among other outlets. It has been sup- on prison conditions was cited by California ported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism state investigators. and the Jewish Week’s Investigative Fund.

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