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degrees
Ph.D. 1992 / University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, Social Work and Sociology
M.S.W. 1983 / Portland State University, Social Planning & Management
B.A. 1981 / University of Oregon, Sociology (Phi Beta Kappa)

positions
2010-current, Director / Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, New York

2005-2009 Research Fellow / Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1997-2005 Director / Program on Youth Justice, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

1991-1997 Senior Research Associate / National Center for Juvenile Justice, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1988-1990 Research Analyst / Center for the Study of Youth Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1986-1988 Research Assistant / Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1983-1985 Social Worker / Oregon Children’s Services Division (now the Department of Human Services), Portland, Oregon

1980-1981 Drug Counselor / Lane County Juvenile Court, Eugene, Oregon

consulting clients
Center on the States, Pew Charitable Trusts (2012)
National Partnership for Juvenile Services (October 2012)
Maine’s Youth Development Institute (July 2012)
Citizens for Juvenile Justice, Boston MA (March 2012)
Vera Institute of Justice, Senior Research Advisor (2010 – 2012)
Michigan Family Impact Seminar, Lansing, MI (December 2011)
Heckscher Foundation for Children, New York, NY (November 2011)
Arizona Supreme Court, Phoenix, AZ (October 2011)
Oregon Juvenile Department Directors Association (September 2011)
Minnesota Coalition for Juvenile Justice (July 2011)
Portland State University, Summer Symposium on Mentoring Research (July 2011)
Urban Institute, District of Columbia Crime Policy Institute (February 2011)
Rite of Passage, National Office (2008 – 2010)
Council of State Governments Justice Center (2010)
Center for Children’s Law and Policy (2010)
Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance (2005 – 2006)
Cook County Juvenile Court (2005)
New Hampshire Division of Juvenile Justice (2005)
Delaware Family Court (2005)
National Juvenile Defender Center (2005)
Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention, Maryland (2004)
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention ( 2003)
Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (2002)
National Center for Juvenile Justice (2002)
National Institute of Justice (2000 – 2001)
Justice Management Institute (1999)
Utah Juvenile Court (1998)
South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (1998)
Cook County (IL) Public Defender (1998)
United States General Accounting Office (GAO) (1994)
West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1992)
Cook County (Chicago) Judicial Advisory Council (1991 – 1992)
Alabama Department of Youth Services (1990 – 1991)
West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1990)
Lucas County (Toledo, Ohio), Mental Health Board (1989)
Oklahoma Division of Children and Youth Services (1989 -1990)
Alabama Department of Youth Services (1988 – 1989)

international
Israel – Toured the nation’s juvenile justice system and consulted with  an inter-district panel of judges, organized by the U.S. Department of State, Office of Public Diplomacy in Jerusalem—–September 2003

France – Toured the Paris juvenile justice system and met with national and local officials related to youth crime and drug policy, organized by staff at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey—–September 2002

teaching

Lecturer, University of Chicago
2008 Spring / Juvenile Justice System Policy and Practice / School of Social Service Administration
2008 Winter / Evaluation of Social Welfare Programs and Policies/ School of Social Service Administration
2007 Spring / Juvenile Justice System Policy and Practice / School of Social Service Administration
2006 Winter / Juvenile Justice System Policy and Practice / School of Social Service Administration

Adjunct, American University, Washington, DC
2004 Fall / Independent Studies in Justice, Law, & Society / School of Public Affairs

Adjunct, Carnegie Mellon University
1997 Spring / Juvenile Crime and Violence / Department of History
1996 Fall / Crime and Punishment in America / Department of History/Social and Decision Science
1996 Spring / Crime and Punishment in America / Department of History/Social and Decision Science
1995 Fall / Crime and Punishment in America / Department of History/Social and Decision Science
1995 Spring / Crime and Punishment in America  / Department of History

Part-Time Faculty, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
1994 Spring / Policy Practice in Youth Services / School of Social and Public Policy
1993 Fall / Delinquency and Society / Department of Sociology

Instructor, University of Michigan
1987 Winter / Family Policy (teaching assistant) / School of Social Work
1990 Fall / Child and Youth Policy / School of Social Work