about
I am a social-legal researcher working as a senior research fellow on the In Our Backyards Project at the Vera Institute of Justice. My current research is focused on how places across the United States use incarceration, but I also write about crime.
I have developed projects that meet needs for better, more timely data about jails and prisons, including the most comprehensive source of local incarceration data in the United States, the Incarceration Trends Project at the Vera Institute of Justice.
My writing has appeared in The Lancet Public Health, The New York Review of Books, Contexts, SSM-Population Health, The Atlantic, Dissent, USA Today, and American Jail Magazine, as well as for the Vera Institute of Justice.
I live in Brooklyn, New York. I earned a PhD in Criminology, Law & Society from the University of California, Irvine and before that worked for the County of Los Angeles. Please see my curriculum vitae if you require further information.
Contact me if you are interested in collaborating — I work regularly with others, and am happy to assist where possible.