The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES)

Director, Insight Project

Designed and implemented the Insight Project, a comprehensive theatre-devising program for young offenders. Secured over $40k in contractual funding from New York State’s Department of Probation and Correctional Alternatives.

The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)

PhD Student in Criminal Justice

Successfully defended dissertation "Local immigration enforcement entrepreneurship in the punishment marketplace" November 9, 2016.

John Jay College

Director of Research

Direct communications strategy; coordinate research collaborations; manage funder relationships; collect, analyse, and report data on faculty scholarship; design, distribute, and review internal research funding for the Office for the Advancement of Research, under Associate Provost of Research Dr Anthony Carpi.

Center on Race, Crime and Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Managing Fellow

Manage research agenda, fundraising activities, and strategic planning for independent research institute focused on issues of race in American criminal justice. Organize Issues of Immigration in Criminal Justice speaker series and academic conference.

"These Illegals": Immigrants as Criminals and Commodities in the American Free Market

The Straddler

"These Illegals": Immigrants as Criminals and Commodities in the American Free Market

The Straddler

Moving the Needle on Justice Reform: A Report on the American Justice Summit 2014

CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Taking place over 5 hours during the afternoon of November 10th, 2014, in John Jay College’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater, the American Justice Summit was an unprecedented public meeting of some of the most important individuals working in contemporary criminal justice reform. The event placed these individuals in front of an audience of six hundred-odd practitioners, activists, students, elected officials, and policy professionals, in conversation with leading journalists and each other, to describe the scope and contours of the problems posed by the country’s dysfunctional and interlocking systems of criminal justice – mass incarceration, police-community relations, the system’s disproportionate criminalization of young people, people of color, and the mentally ill, its contributions to urban poverty, violence, and alienation – and to grapple with potential solutions. This report synthesizes data gathered from the event itself and its publicly available video record with dozens of participant and audience interviews in order to describe points of consensus and divergence among the gathered experts, to detail the full range of their proposed solutions, to evaluate the event’s impact on the gathered participants and the audience bearing witness, and to consider potentially fruitful directions for future efforts on a similar template. Having established the mold for large-scale, high-profile public events addressing criminal justice policy and advocating reform, Tina Brown Live Media and John Jay College have provided a powerful model for moving this essential conversation forward. In addition to providing a snapshot of the event and its immediate impact, this report attempts to address the context of a fast-moving reform conversation and an ideologically inclusive movement, the shape and focus of which is in constant flux as it takes place across academic institutions, policy forums, and media platforms.

"These Illegals": Immigrants as Criminals and Commodities in the American Free Market

The Straddler

Moving the Needle on Justice Reform: A Report on the American Justice Summit 2014

CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Taking place over 5 hours during the afternoon of November 10th, 2014, in John Jay College’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater, the American Justice Summit was an unprecedented public meeting of some of the most important individuals working in contemporary criminal justice reform. The event placed these individuals in front of an audience of six hundred-odd practitioners, activists, students, elected officials, and policy professionals, in conversation with leading journalists and each other, to describe the scope and contours of the problems posed by the country’s dysfunctional and interlocking systems of criminal justice – mass incarceration, police-community relations, the system’s disproportionate criminalization of young people, people of color, and the mentally ill, its contributions to urban poverty, violence, and alienation – and to grapple with potential solutions. This report synthesizes data gathered from the event itself and its publicly available video record with dozens of participant and audience interviews in order to describe points of consensus and divergence among the gathered experts, to detail the full range of their proposed solutions, to evaluate the event’s impact on the gathered participants and the audience bearing witness, and to consider potentially fruitful directions for future efforts on a similar template. Having established the mold for large-scale, high-profile public events addressing criminal justice policy and advocating reform, Tina Brown Live Media and John Jay College have provided a powerful model for moving this essential conversation forward. In addition to providing a snapshot of the event and its immediate impact, this report attempts to address the context of a fast-moving reform conversation and an ideologically inclusive movement, the shape and focus of which is in constant flux as it takes place across academic institutions, policy forums, and media platforms.

'Less Than Human'

The Crime Report

A blog entry on the implications of the DOJ's decision to phase out private prison contracts for the parallel situation of for-profit immigrant detention.