Experience

Evident Change

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Program Officer

  • 2017 - Present

  Oversee NCCD’s justice strategies and system improvement teams, which include research and program staff who work on research, policy, and practice in NCCD’s focus areas (includes juvenile justice, criminal justice, and child welfare). Serve as a member of NCCD’s executive leadership team.

• Director of Justice Strategies

  • 2015 - 2017

  Develop and manage major NCCD projects in all areas of social justice–related research and programming. Provide primary oversight and direction of projects from the proposal stage through completion. Act as liaison to federal, state, and local governments and entities in the public and private sectors that have contracted with NCCD for justice-related projects. Serves as spokesperson for NCCD’s work related to social justice.

• Associate Director of Research

  • 2010 - 2015

  Responsible for research direction and development, project direction, and staff supervision. Served as principal investigator on the Bureau of Justice Assistance–funded projects Youth Violence with Immigrant Populations; Girls and Gangs in California; and California Cities Gang Prevention Network, a network of California cities implementing comprehensive gang prevention, intervention, and suppression plans.

• Senior Researcher

  • 2003 - 2010

  Responsible for research development, project management, and staff supervision. Served as principal investigator on the California Cities Gang Prevention Network, a network of California cities implementing comprehensive gang prevention, intervention, and suppression plans. Directed research for the Insight Prison Project and the National Evaluation of Parents Anonymous, Inc., funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Projects included the National Evaluation of… Show more Responsible for research development, project management, and staff supervision. Served as principal investigator on the California Cities Gang Prevention Network, a network of California cities implementing comprehensive gang prevention, intervention, and suppression plans. Directed research for the Insight Prison Project and the National Evaluation of Parents Anonymous, Inc., funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Projects included the National Evaluation of Community Assessment Centers and the Hawaii Youth Recidivism Study.

• Senior Research Associate

  • 2001 - 2003

  Responsibilities included project management and grant writing. Served as project manager for the Evaluation of the National Resource Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents.