Data Science Institute

Also a Senior Fellow & Equity Scholar at the Urban Institute and author of Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation. Before receiving an M.P.P. & Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he worked as a community organizer and served as a political organizer most notably for then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama.

How does your research, teaching, or other work relate to data or computational science?

I have a number of original data that allow mapping of the criminal legal system institutions and outcomes related to health and wealth.