of Criminology (ASC), chaired the ASC’s Division on People of Color and Crime, and served on the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs’ Science Advisory Board and the ASC Policy Committee. She teaches public policy, criminal justice policy, housing and homeless policy, research methods, and American politics. Chen received the Santa Clara University’s College of Arts and Sciences 2015 David E. Logothetti Award for teaching excellence.

Jennifer Cobbina-Dungy is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Cobbina’s areas of expertise center on police-community relations, youth violence, and concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, with a special focus on the experiences of minority youth and the impact of race, class, and gender on criminal justice practices. Her research also focuses on corrections, prisoner reentry and the understanding of recidivism and desistance from crime. Her mixed-methods qualitative and quantitative research predicts recidivism and desistance outcomes and also explores offenders’ perceptions regarding how they manage reentry and integration back into the community. Her scholarship is centered on improving the reentry outcomes of individuals with a felony record and/or has been formerly incarcerated. She received her Ph.D. in criminal justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 2009.

Ronald F. Day is a vice president of Programs at the Fortune Society. Day is passionate about reentry, promoting desistance, dismantling mass incarceration, and addressing the stigma of incarceration. He provides oversight for Fortune’s Education and Employment Services, and for Individualized Correction Achievement Network (ICAN), a New York City Department of Correction (NYCDOC) initiative that provides pre and post release services to people incarcerated in NYC jails. He formerly served as the AVP of Fortune’s David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy (DRCPP), which advocates to reduce reliance on incarceration, promote model programing for the incarcerated population, change laws and policies that create barriers for successful reintegration, and foster a just and equitable criminal justice system. He is the former host of Fortune’s original show Both Sides of the Bars on Manhattan Neighborhood Network. He has a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the CUNY Graduate Center/John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a M.P.A. from Baruch College (CUNY). He was also formerly incarcerated.

DeAnna Hoskins is president of JustLeadershipUSA. Hoskins has been committed to the movement for justice, working alongside people impacted by incarceration for nearly two decades. She was formerly the senior policy advisor over corrections and reentry with the Department of Justice (DOJ). In this capacity, she represented DOJ’s strategies and priorities and oversaw

the Second Chance Act portfolio of grants, The National Reentry Resource Center, and Residential Substance Abuse Treatment programs. Hoskins was designated as the interim deputy director of the Federal Reentry Interagency Council by Attorney General Loretta Lynch. She has experienced the reentry system from all perspectives as she is herself a previously incarcerated individual who has successfully transitioned back into the community, ultimately receiving a pardon from Governor Ted Strickland. She holds a M.A. in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati, bachelor’s degree in social work, and is a licensed clinical addictions counselor and certified as an Offender Workforce Development Specialist.

Cecelia Klingele is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she teaches courses in criminal law, Constitutional criminal procedure, policing, and sentencing and corrections. She is also a faculty associate of the Frank J. Remington Center, the La Follette School of Public Affairs, and the Institute for Research on Poverty. Klingele’s academic research focuses on criminal justice administration, with an emphasis on community and institutional corrections. She has served as Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code: Sentencing revision, External Co-Director of the University of Minnesota Robina Institute’s Sentencing Law & Policy Program, and co-chair of the Academic Committee of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section. She received her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Klingele then served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Barbara B. Crabb of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, Judge Susan H. Black of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court.

William J. Sabol is a professor in the Department Criminal Justice & Criminology at Georgia State University where he teaches and conducts research on corrections, sentencing policy, and crime statistics. During the past 30 years, he has held positions in government, private sector research institutions, and universities, including serving as the director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University’s Institute of Criminology.

Faye S. Taxman is a professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She is a health service criminologist. She is recognized for her work in the development of seamless systems-of-care models that link the criminal justice system with other health care and other service delivery systems and reengineering probation and parole supervision services. She has conducted experiments to examine different processes to improve treatment access and retention, to assess new models of

probation supervision consistent with Risk, Need and Responsivity (RNR) frameworks, and to test new interventions. She has active “laboratories” with numerous agencies including Virginia Department of Corrections, Alameda County Probation Department (CA), Hidalgo County Community Corrections Department (TX), North Carolina Department of Corrections, and Delaware Department of Corrections. She developed the translational RNR Simulation Tool (www.gmuace.org/tools) to assist agencies to advance practice. In 2019, she received the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Sentencing and Corrections. She has a Ph.D. from Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice.

Christopher Uggen is Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight Professor of sociology and law at the University of Minnesota and a fellow of the American Society of Criminology. He studies crime, law, and justice, firm in the belief that sound research can help build a more just and peaceful world. His writing on felon voting, work and crime, and harassment and discrimination is frequently cited in media. Current projects include a comparative study of reentry from different types of institutions, employment discrimination and criminal records, crime and justice after genocide, and the health effects of incarceration. His outreach and engagement projects include editing Contexts Magazine and TheSocietyPages.Org. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1995.

Christy A. Visher is professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware and Director of the Center for Drug and Health Studies. Over the past three decades, her research has focused broadly on crime and justice topics, including prisoner reentry, crime prevention strategies, and substance use disorders. Visher designed and implemented the path-breaking, longitudinal study of men and women released from prison, “Returning Home: Understanding the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry”. She was also Co-Principal Investigator for the multi-site Evaluation of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative. Her most recent research projects examine the strategies for improving the day-to-day environment for people who live and work in prison, the efficacy of using cognitive behavioral therapy in correctional settings to reduce misconduct and rearrest, and interventions to link probationers to health care providers. She has published extensively on prisoner reentry. Visher has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Emily Wang is an associate professor in the Yale School of Medicine and directs the Health Justice Lab. The Health Justice Lab is a collaborative, innovative, interdisciplinary team focused on improving the health of individuals and communities who have been affected by mass incarceration.

The Lab has studies ranging from the epidemiology of incarceration and cardiovascular health to mitigating the community impact of gun violence using a participatory approach and assets-based framework. Wang has cared for thousands of individuals with a history of incarceration and is co-founder of the Transitions Clinic Network (TCN), a growing consortium of 30 community health centers nationwide dedicated to caring for individuals recently released from correctional facilities by employing individuals with a history of incarceration as community health workers. Wang has an M.D. from Duke University and a M.A.S from the University of California, San Francisco.

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