MNJRC - Key Persons
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- Chairman / Global Head of Product & Editorial for Thomson Reuters Legal
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- Research Assistant - Community Safety Specialist Evaluation
PhD candidate in Educational Policy & Leadership at the U of M - Twin Cities. His research explores the connection between race, space, and education to understand how historic and current policies create inequitable opportunities for minoritized students.
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- Research Steering Committee
Regents Professor, Martindale Chair, and Distinguished McKnight Professor in Sociology, Law, and Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Studies crime, law, and inequality from a life course perspective, firm in the belief that sound research can help build a more just and peaceful world.
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- Research Steering Committee
Assistant professor at the U of Cincinnati - School of Criminal Justice. Formerly the research director at the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice - U of MN Law School. She researches how criminal justice policies and practices impact individuals, families, and communities.
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- Research Steering Committee
Fink Professor of Liberal Arts at the U of MN, where he serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate in the Law School. He is currently focusing his studies on the bail bond industry.
Community-based researcher whose work spans the criminal legal system, youth development, and education. She leads MNJRC's efforts to engage in participatory and collaborative community-led research.
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- Research Steering Committee
Associate Professor of Law at the U of MN Law School and a co-founder and counsel at the Policing Project, a non-profit based at the NYU School of Law. She teaches criminal procedure, constitutional law, and administrative law.
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- Research Steering Committee
Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the U of MN. Her research is in the sociology of punishment, focusing on the punitive turn in the U.S with primary lines of ongoing research on mass probation, criminal justice transformation, and policing.
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- Research Steering Committee
Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. He studies the social, political, and collateral consequences of criminal legal involvement and the accumulating effects of criminal records on impacted people and communities.
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- Research Steering Committee
Distinguished University Chair, Professor of History, and Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the U of St. Thomas
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- Research Manager - Community Safety Specialist Evaluation
PhD candidate at the U of M - Twin Cities where his research and evaluation include: African immigrant identity development, race, urban mentorship, culturally responsive leadership, and program evaluation.
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- Attorney
- Member of the Board
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Co - Founder
Community leader with a record of executing successful issue campaigns and is an expert in Criminal Justice and Democracy reform. He leads MNJRC's efforts to build a balanced and rigorous research program aimed at equipping Minnesotans with information and tools needed to transform the punitive criminal legal system.
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- Professor of Law at the U of St. Thomas
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- Treasurer / Executive Officer to the Ramsey County Attorney
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- Research Steering Committee
Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the U of St. Thomas. He also holds the Ruthie Mattox Preaching Chair at First Covenant Church, Minneapolis. A former federal prosecutor, he focuses his research and writing clemency, sentencing and narcotics policy.
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- Board Member / Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Adjunct Professor and Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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- Vice Chair / Vice President of Community Relations and Government Affairs for Thomson Reuters Former Mayor of Minneapolis
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- Board Member / Partner at Best Flanagan Former U.S. Attorney on Two Occasions
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- Founder
- Hennepin County Attorney for 12 Years, Served As President of the Council on Crime and Justice for Ten Years, and Practiced Law With the Gray Plant Mooty Law Firm.
Through all his work, Tom dedicated his life to addressing the unacceptable racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and the costs that those disparities have on our society. It was that life's work that led Tom to establish the MNJRC in 2017. It is our honor to be able to continue his work.